aghaniṣṭha (148)

aghaniṣṭha
Entry 148, Page 5, Col. 2

(aGanizWa, aGanizWa)
aghaniṣṭha¦, doubtless understood as sky-based (see agha, 1), a class of gods: Mvy 3107, where it follows akaniṣṭha, of which it is surely nothing but a folk-ety- mological distortion. So Wogihara, Lex. It occurs in no other of my texts unless in Bbh; Wogihara reads so in 62.6 and 68.5; actually it is read only in the latter place by one of the two mss. (which reads aniṣṭha in the former place), while the other ms. reads akaniṣṭha both times. Wogihara's suggested interpretation, and those he quotes from Yaśomitra and Chin., seem to me fantastic and worthless. Cf. lokaniṣṭha.

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