Lokakhyanakatha, Lokākhyānakathā, Lokakhyana-katha: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryLokākhyānakathā (लोकाख्यानकथा).—Divyāvadāna 304.27, and lokākhyā- yikā, 26, 29, story-telling about the world. Here a work- man tells entertaining stories to his fellow workmen. Certainly not philosophical discussion about (the creation, etc., of) the world, which is the scholastic interpretation of Pali lokakkhāyikā (e.g. Dīghanikāya (Pali) commentary i.90.32; Majjhimanikāya (Pali) commentary iii.223.15), adopted in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]. I am not sure that this is not late commentarial pedantry; in the canonical and other early Pali texts, so far as I can see, the Pali word might have the meaning which it clearly has in Divyāvadāna.
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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