Adeyavacana, Ādeyavacana, Adeya-vacana: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryĀdeyavacana (आदेयवचन).—adj. [bahuvrīhi] (= Pali ādeyya-vacana, also -vāca Vin. ii.158.17; in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] defined as Karmadh., but actually [bahuvrīhi] in all citations traced [Jātaka (Pali) vi.243 seems to be an error]); also °na-tā, abstr. state of being… (this); of welcome, acceptable, i.e. pleasing, agreeable speech: Bodhisattvabhūmi 29.(16—)17 satyavacano 'piśunāparuṣāsaṃ- bhinnapralāpābhyāsaḥ ādeyavacanatāyā hetuḥ; 31.15—17 °cano bodhisattvaḥ priyavāditayā arthacaryayā samānār- thatayā ca sattvāṃ saṃgṛhṇāti paripācayati, idam ādeyavacanatāyā…phalaṃ…; Mahāvastu i.270.6 °canā ca bhavanti kīrtanīyā ca bahujanasya (of devotees of Bud- dha); Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 80.11; Śikṣāsamuccaya 351.7. Cf. next.
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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