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)

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William