Abhayagirivasin, Abhayagirivāsin, Abhaya-girivasin: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhayagirivāsin (अभयगिरिवासिन्).—m. one dwelling on the mountain of safety, Name of a class of Kātyāyana's pupils.

Abhayagirivāsin is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms abhaya and girivāsin (गिरिवासिन्).

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

Abhayagirivāsin (अभयगिरिवासिन्).—m. pl., name of a school: Mahāvyutpatti 9098.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhayagirivāsin (अभयगिरिवासिन्):—[=a-bhaya-giri-vāsin] [from a-bhaya] m. [plural] ‘dwelling on the mountain of safety’, Name of a division of Kātyāyana’s pupils, [Buddhist literature]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhayagirivāsin (अभयगिरिवासिन्):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-sī) An inhabitant of the Buddhist monastery Abhayagiri; abhayagirivāsinaḥ is the name of a Buddhist sect, one of three pretending to be founded by Kātyāyana, and one of the four divisions of the Vaibhāṣikas, (the three other divisions having for founders Rāhula, Upāli and Kāśyapa); for the two other sects founded by Kātyāyana see mahāvihāravāsin and jetavanīya. Comp. abhidharma. (See Burnouf's Lotus de la bonne loi Ii. p. 357 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. Ii. pp. 457. 1005. 1086.) E. abhayagiri and vāsin.

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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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