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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Guṇāvaguṇṭhitabhūta (गुणावगुण्ठितभूत).—adj. (see below for Pali), Lalitavistara 205.11, entangled in (or like; a maze or tangle of) cords (threads). Corresp. to Mahāvyutpatti 5391 guḍā-guñjika-bhūta, q.v., = Tibetan dru gu (ball or skein of thread) ḥdziṅs pa (implicatus, embrouillé, Dict. Fr. Cath. Miss.) lta bu, become as it were mixed up in a skein of thread. Parts of this old cliché in Mahāvyutpatti 5390—93 and in Lalitavistara l.c., and re- peatedly in Pali, see [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] s.v. guḷā, which misinterprets; an approximation to the Tibetan translation(s) of this word (with jāta for bhuta) is given in Pali comms., e.g. Dīghanikāya (Pali) commentary ii.495.24 ff. Lalitavistara: aho vatāhaṃ…lokasya tantrākulajā- tasya (q.v.; so mss.) guṇāvaguṇṭhitabhūtasyā- (here Mahāvyutpatti adds muñja-balbajajāta, q.v., with Pali) -javaṃjava- samāpannasyāsamāt etc. (for the rest see s.v. ājavaṃ- java; Pali lacks this part, at least in most occurrences). The tradition, both Pali and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], is confused on the form of this word, but there seems no doubt of the es- sential meaning, as stated above. Instead of guṇa, thread, Mahāvyutpatti has guḍā, ball (sc. of thread; both Tibetan dru gu and Pali comms. prove this meaning, against [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]). In Pali the mss. in different occurrences show guḷā, guḷi, guṇa, kulā, [Page213-a+ 71] kula, etc.; I suspect the orig. may have been guḍā (Pali guḷā), as in Mahāvyutpatti, but note the Pali v.l. guṇa as in Lalitavistara; the meaning of the two is practically identical here. The second member appears in Pali as guṇṭhita, guṇṭhika, guṇḍika, guṇika, gaṇṭhita, gandhika, etc.; in Lalitavistara ava- guṇṭhita, in Mahāvyutpatti guñjika which seems to be unparalleled and uninterpretable. The orig. was most likely guṇṭhita; but possibly guṇṭhika (Pali, probably based on a MIndic guṇṭhiya, really = guṇṭhita), or guṇḍita (AMg. guṇḍia, °ya).

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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: Bhuta.

Full-text: Munjabalbajajata, Ajavamjava.

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