The Sanskrit term Aniṣṭhāpada can be transliterated into English as Anisthapada or Anishthapada, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Aniṣṭhāpada (अनिष्ठापद).—apparently intended at Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 180.17 (text anadhiṣṭhāpada) and 227.4 (text aṣṭāpada); Tibetan thug pa med paḥi gnas. Suzuki translation(s) inexhaustible vows; rather, unlimited terms; S. uses the same translation(s) for niṣṭhā-pada, q.v. It seems, indeed, that these two formally opposite expressions, unlimited term and funda- mental term, are virtual synonyms. Cf. Daśabhūmikasūtra 17.9, where each of the 10 niṣṭhā is specifically said to be aniṣṭhā (the trick seems to lie in different uses of niṣṭhā: the fundament, basis is said to be without end or limit, end being also a meaning of niṣṭhā).

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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: Anishtha, Pada, Pata.

Ends with: Kanishthapada.

Full-text: Anadhishthapada, Nishthapada.

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