From the book: A graduated Pali course https://www.online.buddhistcc.com/books/-a-graduated-pali-course-part-1.html?SubmitCurrency=1&id_currency=2
There’s many different meaning usage of the Pāli cases:
Meaning\Word form | Nominative | Accusative | Instrumental | Dative | Ablative | Genitive | Locative | Vocative |
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Nominative | ||||||||
Accusative | ||||||||
Instrumental | ||||||||
Dative | ||||||||
Ablative | ||||||||
Genitive | ||||||||
Locative | ||||||||
Vocative | ||||||||
Adverbially | ||||||||
how many meaning? | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
So accusative form has 7 different possible meanings.
āvāsā could be in instrumental form and mean accusative.