Satatasamita, Satata-samita: 2 definitions
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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgricultureSatatasamita (सततसमित) refers to “constantly (warding off all calamities)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [As the afflicted Nāgas said to Bhagavān]: “[...] However, O Bhagavān, from today on I make a vow in the presence of the Tathāgata. Wherever this spell-holder king will circulate, there, O Bhagavān, the Nāgas will not make calamities again. Wherever this heart-dhāraṇī is used for protection, [there is] rescue, shelter, safeguard and the sealing of the boundaries and sealing of the maṇḍala. Where an amulet-cord is made, for that person, O Bhagavān, we will constantly (satatasamita) ward off all calamities”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySatatasamita (सततसमित).—adj. (once), °tam, also satataṃ samitam, adv. (Sanskrit satataṃ, adv.; Pali satataṃ samitaṃ, two words, as rarely in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]; is Pali samitaṃ ever used without preceding satataṃ?; AMg. samiyaṃ, cited once after sayā = sadā), (1) adj., eternal; noted only in: eṣā (mss. eṣāṃ) ca Mahāmaudgalyāyana praṇidhi (mss. °dhiṃ) satatasamitā (one ms., of six, satataṃ sa°; one °mitām, perhaps with hiatus-bridging m) abhūṣi Mahāvastu i.61.2 (prose); (2) adv., continually, constantly; regularly as [compound] word, °ta-samitam, extremely common in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] but not recorded elsewhere: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 65.11; 102.8; 160.5; 201.10; 210.2; Lalitavistara 44.16; 180.19; Mahāvastu i.144.14; iii.52.16; Mahāvyutpatti 7262; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 66.2; 70.4; 205.10 (verse); Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 40.17; 41.11; Śikṣāsamuccaya 9.16; 227.4; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 320.3 (text satatta-sam°); Gaṇḍavyūha 50.22; Daśabhūmikasūtra 14.1; Bodhisattvabhūmi 4.19; Sukhāvatīvyūha 56.5; Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 240.10; Śālistambasūtra 72.10 (all but one of [Page553-b+ 71] these prose); rarely, as in Pali, two words, satataṃ sami- taṃ: Kāraṇḍavvūha 13.5 ff.; 59.21; 64.20 (in some of these text prints saṃmitaṃ); Lalitavistara 66.7 ff. (here vv.ll. satata-, [compound]); 72.12—13 (no v.l.).
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: Satata, Samita.
Starts with: Satatasamitabhiyukta.
Full-text: Samitam.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 4 - Illuminating the darkness of the intermediary worlds < [Chapter LI - Seeing all the Buddha Fields]
V. Meritorious actions consisting of material gifts and of teaching < [Part 5 - Establishing beings in the puṇyakriyāvastus]
Part 3 - Pure generosity and Impure generosity < [Chapter XIX - The Characteristics of Generosity]
The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Chapter VII - The ordination of Mahā-Kāśyapa < [Volume III]