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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKarkarava (कर्करव).—m., Mahāvyutpatti 6204, and mahā-k°, m., 6205 (compare Pali kakkaru, a kind of creeper, and see karkārava), a (heavenly) flower; = Tibetan mdog dkar, white color.
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Karkārava (कर्कारव).—nt. (or m.), and mahā-k°, id. (compare Sanskrit karkāru, a kind of gourd; Pali kakkāru, id., also a heavenly flower; see also karkarava), a kind of heavenly flower: karkāravehi mahākarkāravehi Mahāvastu i.266.18 (prose); °vāṇi mahā°vāṇi ii.160.12; 286.16 (both prose); karkāravāṃ ca (acc. pl.) 413.17 (verse); karkāravāṇi iii.94.24, mahā°vāṇi 95.2 (verses).
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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