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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Āsevaka (आसेवक).—or °kā, some kind of garment: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 283.9 (verse), cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 352.13, āsevaka (unmetrical(ly)! one ms. and Śikṣāsamuccaya °kaṃ; WT with most mss. °kāṃ; Kashgar recension °kā) kṛsna tathādaditvā. Tibetan according to Bendall rdul gzan, dust garment (Jäschke (Tibetan-English Dictionary) cloak, against dust on a journey), but according to WT, and my own copy of Tibetan Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, rṅul gzan, which = saṃkakṣikā, q.v.; Burnouf and Kern woolen garment; note that Tibetan rdul and rṅul are very easily confused in writing; in Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.52.5 āsevaka (ms., ed. em. āsīvaka) seems to mean patch (so Tibetan, lhan thabs kyis klan pa); in the next line, 6, sevakaṃ (ms., ed. em. sīv°) dattvā dhāraya, seems to show the same meaning, and in 11 below, text āsīvakāṃs (by em.? ms. āsev° as before?) tu dattvā dhārayitvayam, confirms this meaning (reference is to materials unsuitable for making robes).

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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: Acevakavatam.

Ends with (+8): Angasevaka, Carmaprasevaka, Carmmaprasevaka, Charmaprasevaka, Charmmaprasevaka, Chirasevaka, Cirasevaka, Dvijasevaka, Gandhasevaka, Harasevaka, Janasevaka, Kulasevaka, Kumarasevaka, Lokasevaka, Nityasevaka, Parasevaka, Prasevaka, Priyasevaka, Rajasevaka, Ramasevaka.

Full-text: Sivaka, Asivaka, Sevaka, Samkakshika.

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