Vikhadati, Vikhādati: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVikhādati (विखादति) or Vikhādate.—(as vb. nowhere recorded; noun derivs. in Sanskrit and Pali; compare next), gnaws at, devours (said chiefly of animals), German frisst: vikhādyamānā bahuprāṇikoṭi- bhiḥ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 95.3 (verse); (animals) kṣudhābhibhūtā deśeṣu deśeṣu vikhādamānāḥ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 83.13, very hungry, gnawing (devouring) in all places; lohaṃ dantair vikhādatha Lalitavistara 379.10 (verse), you (daughters of Māra) are gnawing metal with your teeth (attempting the impossible); (yadā mṛtaśarīrāṇi paśyati śmaśāne utsṛṣṭāni) vikhāditāny (gnawed; see next) aśucīni Śikṣāsamuccaya 211.8.
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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