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

Saṃmiñjayati (संमिञ्जयति).—(= Pali °jeti, also written samiñjeṭi; connected with un-minj-, ni-miñj-, and prec. and next; in mss. and edd. also written samiñj-, but incorrectly, see below), bends back, draws in, contracts, parts of the body, especially the arms; always associated with its opposite prasārayati (Sanskrit), extends: saṃmiñjitaṃ (vā) bāhuṃ (in Mahāvastu oftener °tāṃ…bāhāṃ) prasāraye(t, once °yeya) prasāritaṃ (vā, or ca) bāhuṃ (the noun may be omitted; Mahāvastu oftener °tāṃ…bāhāṃ) saṃmiñjaye(t) Mahāvastu i.55.1, 14; 56.8; iii.425.15, 22; 450.16; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 3.26; Divyāvadāna 473.6; Wald- schmidt, Kl. Sanskrit Texte 4, 65.20 (Śakrapraśnasūtra, according to p.5, ms. saṃmiñcita, but text prints saṃmiñj°); 157.18 (Mahāsamājasūtra); (yato care yato tiṣṭhe yato āse yato śaye, so Senart em.,) yato saṃmiñjaye kāyaṃ yato kāyaṃ prasāraye Mahāvastu iii.422.(16—)17 (so Senart, em., but probably rightly), in a description of a bhikṣu, whenever he draws in or extends (any member of) his body. Leumann, Album Kern 393 f., adopts an earlier suggestion of Kern's and derives from sam-vṛj-. He rightly distinguishes this verb from Pali sam-iñjati (Dhammapada (Pali) 81, na samiñjanti paṇḍitā), is moved, is perturbed; compare [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] iñjate. But when Leumann states that this sam-iñjati, in its Pali meaning, is also found in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], I fear that he was speaking carelessly. The only cases of sam-iñj- which I have noted are shown by associa- tion with forms of prasār- to be false readings for saṃmiñj-; such cases also occur in Pali ([Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]). The only ‘confusion’ shown by [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] in this sept consists in the erroneous writing of samiñj- for saṃmiñj- (which Leumann also recognizes). Leumann's [etymology] seems to me at least more plausible than any other, including that of Lüders (s.v. samarjana). That double mm (or ṃm), not single m, is the only correct form is proved by un-miñj- and ni- miñj-, neither of which occurs in Pali; Leumann considers them (as he must according to his etymology) secondarily abstracted from saṃ-miñj-. I have found no trace of the sept elsewhere.

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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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