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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKarṇikāyā (कर्णिकाया).—(?) , in °yā-keyūrāṇi (in a list of various ornaments, all noms.) Lalitavistara 121.7 (prose; printed as [compound] by Lefm.). One ms. (A) omits karṇikāyā; another reads °kāyāṃ (loc. of °kā); Calcutta (see LV.) karṇikāḥ; Weller 25 states that his ms. reads karṇābharaṇāni muṇḍikābharaṇāni (for karṇikāyā-keyūrāṇi? or for the two preceding words? his statement is not clear). Some form or equivalent of kar- ṇikā, ear-ornament, is doubtless meant. Tibetan ear-ornaments (rna rgyan) and shoulder-ornaments (the latter represents keyūrāṇi).
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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