Alternative spellings of this word include Achhadana.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Āchādana (आछादन).—nt. = prec. (compare next), gift, present (not necessarily clothes): Lalitavistara 58.2 āchādanāni codgṛhya; this verse deals with the same events described in prose 58.6 saṃpravāryāchādanāni ca dattvā (clothes might, but need not necessarily, be meant); Mahāvastu iii.177.16 -pauruṣeyā veṣṭetavyā (see veṣṭeti) bhojanāchādanena sarvehi ca utsavehi samanvāharitavyā; Bodhisattvabhūmi 115.7 kaścit pareṣāṃ bhaktāchādanahetoḥ dāsabhāvam upagacchet; 269.24 tasyāham ucitaṃ vā bhaktāchādanaṃ samucchetsyāmi…, I will deprive him of his customary gift of food; bhaktā- chādana Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.51.22. (Some take bhojanāch°, bhaktāch° as dvandvas, food and clothing; while perhaps not impos- sible, this seems to me unlikely.)

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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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Starts with: Accatanam.

Ends with: Dandachadana, Mallikachadana, Pachadana, Pracchadana, Uttarachadana.

Full-text: Gonika, Ucchadana.

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