Abhayagirivihara, Abhayagirivihāra, Abhaya-girivihara: 3 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAbhayagirivihāra (अभयगिरिविहार).—Buddhist monastery on the Abhayagiri.
Derivable forms: abhayagirivihāraḥ (अभयगिरिविहारः).
Abhayagirivihāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms abhaya and girivihāra (गिरिविहार).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Abhayagirivihāra (अभयगिरिविहार):—[=a-bhaya-giri-vihāra] [from a-bhaya] a m. Buddhist monastery on the Abhayagiri.
2) [v.s. ...] b m. Name of a monastery, [Inscriptions]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhayagirivihāra (अभयगिरिविहार):—[karmadharaya compound] m.
(-raḥ) The Buddhist mona-stery Abhayagiri in Anurādhapura which is said to have been founded by the king Vartagāmani, in commemoration of a taunt held out to him by a Nighaṇṭa Brāhmaṇa of the name of Giri, when he fled after an unsuccessful encounter with the Damila, the king making a vow to build a monastery if he should be victorious; he called it Abhayagiri from the name of the Brāhmaṇa (Giri) and the surname Abhaya he had assumed himself. (Comp. Turnour's Mahāv. p. 206 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. Ii. p. 433.) The monastery is famed for the sect which inhabited it (see abhayagirivāsin) and a tope erected in it. (Comp. Wilson's Ariana Antiqua p. 39 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. Ii. p. 1008.) E. abhaya-giri and vihāra.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Girivihara, Abhayagiri, Vihara, Abhaya.
Full-text (+68): Virankurarama, Kolavapi, Silameghapabbata, Tiputthulla-vihara, Abhayagiri, Kappura-parivena, Kassapa-pasada, Uttaralha, Abhaya Vihara, Vajirasena, Mahalekha, Sanghasenapabbata, Mahadaragiri, Gamanitissa, Abhayagirika, Pacinatissapabbata-vihara, Caitya, Sabhattudesabhoga, Pusarbapaha, Kapalanaga.
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