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1 aṃśa , m. , ( 1 ) (= Pali aṃsa, only in comp. ) ( part , and so) time (as past, present, future): Mv i.160.8, 9 (prose) atīte aṃśe … anāgate aṃśe … pratyutpanne aṃśe (in sense of usual adhvani, see adhvan , which is used in Sūtrāl. xx—xxi.57 and Mvy 151—153 in parallel to this passage, on the 18 āveṇika buddha-dharma); atīte aṃśe Mv i.161.6 ; atītāṃśagatā (= Pali atītaṃsa-) Mvy 6438 ; ( 2 ) portion , in maitra aṃśa portion of affection , virtually = love (so Pali cpd. mettaṃsa, It. 22.4 , not adj. with PTSD but noun love , °so sabbabhūtesu veraṃ tassa na kenaci, he has love for all creatures, has no enmity with anyone ); maitreṇāṃśena sphuritvā, having suffused with love Divy 60.24 (so with mss. ); 61.12 (here mss. and ed. maitreyāṃśena, a corruption due to repeated occurrence of name Maitreya in the context); 66.18 (here kept in ed. with mss. ); see sphurati ; a variant form, in comp. with maitra or maitrā , seems to occur in maitrāsa-tā , q.v. —See aṣṭāṃśa .