limb, member, constituent, part Vv-a.53 (sarīra˚ = gattā). Vv-a.168 Vv-a.201, Vv-a.276; Pv-a.211 (sarīra˚ = gattā), Pv-a.251 (mūl˚ the fibres of the root). As t. t. g. at Snp-a.397. In the commentaries avayava is often used where aṅga would have been used in the older texts.

Derⁿ uncertain. Cp. mediaeval Sk. avayava