Upasampadayati, Upasaṃpādayati: 1 definition

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

Upasaṃpādayati (उपसंपादयति) or Deti.—(= Pali °deti; compare prec. items), ordains, receives into the order of monks: Kāraṇḍavvūha 96.13 duḥśīlena bhikṣuṇā nopasaṃpādayitavyaṃ; regularly pre- ceded by a parallel form of pravrājayati, °jeti: Mahāvastu i.323.7 pravrājetu upasaṃpādetu, similarly Mahāvastu iii.65.1; 180.11; °pādetha Mahāvastu i.323.8; (pravrājehi…) upasaṃpādehi Mahāvastu iii.379.12; ppp. upasaṃpādita, regularly used when the actual ordination ceremony is in mind, thus slightly differing from upasaṃpanna, q.v., which means (one that has been) ordained; regularly preceded by pravrājita (in Divyāvadāna 180.21 text pravrajita); nom. of various numbers, [Page143-b+ 71] Mahāvastu iii.376.14; 377.5; 401.16; Divyāvadāna 180.21; 331.7; 551.13 (dual); Avadāna-śataka i.104.4.

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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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