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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVaitulya (वैतुल्य).—(nt.; equivalent to vaipulya; compare Pali vetulla-, or °lya-, -vāda, -vādin, a heretical sect, by some identified with Mahāyāna, see Malalasekara (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names) s.v., n. 3; Kern, Versl. K. Akad. Afd. Lett., 4 Reeks, Deel viii, 312 ff.), (work of) great extent(?): sarva-mahāyānasūtra-°lya-para- māmṛta- Thomas ap. Hoernle [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 95.8; according to Kern's Saddharmapuṇḍarīka preface ix, in Kashgar recension for vaipulya; see also 65.1 n. 1; Śikṣāsamuccaya 354.6 (compare p. 415).
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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Full-text: Ussillya Tissa, Vaipulya, Vetulla, Abhayagiri.
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