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

Gopiṭaka (गोपिटक).—(go-piṭaka), nt., lit. cow-basket; perhaps orig. a receptacle for fodder for cattle; but in Mahāvastu always used for human (hard or dry) food or cakes (khajja, khajjaka), while soft food (odana, once bhakta, q.v.) is in the same passages placed in the alinda or °dā, q.v.: Mahāvastu ii.461.21; 462.2, 7, 9, 11; iii.15.9, 12; mentioned merely in reference to its size, °ka-mātram, Divyāvadāna 70.28.

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Gopitaka (गोपितक).—adj. (= Sanskrit °ta), hidden, concealed: (so ca naṃ māṣo) tatraiva gaṅgākūle °ko abhūṣi Mahāvastu iii.184.18.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gopiṭaka (गोपिटक):—[=go-piṭaka] [from go] n. a kind of round basket, [Divyāvadāna iv, 68.]

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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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Partial matches: Go, Pitaka.

Full-text: Bhakta, Khajjaka, Pura.

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The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)

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