at Dhs-a.259 and Vism.26 is a grammarian’s construction, abstracted from f. abstr. words ending in -āyanā, e.g. kankhā → kankhāyanā, of which the correct expl^n. is a derivation fr. caus
■ formation kankhāyati → kankhāy + a + nā. What the idea of Bdhgh. was in propounding his expl^n. is hard to say, perhaps he related it to i and understood it to be the same as āyāna.

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