Prajanati, Prajānāti: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPrajānāti (प्रजानाति) or Prajānīte.—(app. not recorded in Sanskrit or MIndic in this meaning), claims, makes profession: with predicate nom., anācāryo bhagavāṃ Gautamo prajānāsi Mahāvastu iii.326.9—10, you profess to be untaught?, and similarly 13-14, 17—18; in the corresp. passage Lalitavistara 405.22 and 406.4 pratijānīṣe (in 405.22 v.l. pra-jā°), which is more normal Sanskrit; also with acc. (? gen.) of the thing claimed, mātṛgrāmo 'saṃ- vidyamānaguṇo 'pi guṇān (so probably read with v.l. for Lefm. with best mss. guṇānām) ātmani prajānīte Lalitavistara [Page358-a+ 71] 141.9, womenfolk, even when no virtues are found, profess (claim) virtues in themselves; the meaning is certain (wrongly Foucaux); some (inferior) mss. prati-jā°; Calcutta (see LV.) guṇān.
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 (+2): Pravibhakti, Vaineyika, Sthanasthana, Upanipatita, Sottara, Vaimatrata, Kalapadesha, Samudghatana, Nanadhimukti, Anushthya, Indriyaparapara, Samklesha, Prajanite, Palita, Sthavira, Vivarta, Vyavalokayati, Vibandha, Rashi, Anusaya.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 5-6 - Description of sarvākāra (all aspects) and sarvadharma (all dharmas) < [Chapter XVI - The Story of Śāriputra]
I. The power of the possible and the impossible (sthānāsthāna-jñānabala) < [Part 2 - The ten powers in particular]
Altruism in the practice of the faculties (indriya) < [Part 3 - The auxiliaries according to the Mahāyāna]
Shrimad Bhagavad-gita (by Narayana Gosvami)
Verse 18.31 < [Chapter 18 - Mokṣa-yoga (the Yoga of Liberation)]
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 300 < [Chapter 7 - Doctrine of the Self (ātman, ‘soul’)]
Bhagavad-gita-rahasya (or Karma-yoga Shastra) (by Bhalchandra Sitaram Sukthankar)