ava-dhūta mfn. shaken off (as evil spirits) VS. i, í

• removed, shaken away BhP. &c

• discarded, expelled, excluded MBh. &c

• disregarded, neglected, rejected Daś. &c

• touched R. vi, 82, 62

• shaken, agitated (especially as plants or the dust by the wind), fanned MBh. &c

• that upon which anything unclean has been shaken out or off (cf. avakṣuta) Mn. v, 125 MBh. xiii, 1577

• unclean BhP

• one who has shaken, off from himself worldly feeling and obligation, a philosopher (brahma-vid) BhP. Rājat

• m. N. of a Śaiva philosopher

• (am), n. rejecting, repudiating MBh. iv, 352 (= Hariv. 4717)