The Sanskrit term Abhiṣṭipā can be transliterated into English as Abhistipa or Abhishtipa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

1) Abhiṣṭipā (अभिष्टिपा):—[=abhi-ṣṭi-pā] [from abhi-ṣṭi] m([nominative case]-pā)fn. protecting with assistance, [Ṛg-veda ii, 20, 2]

2) [v.s. ...] (the [nominative case] -pā being irregular for -pāḥ, [Grassmann] proposes the emendation [adopted by the [Boehtlingk’s Sanskrit-Woerterbuch in kuerzerer fassung]] aBi/zwI ([Vedic or Veda] [instrumental case]) pāsijanān instead of abhiṣṭipāsi janān).

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

Abhiṣṭipā (अभिष्टिपा):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-pāḥ) (ved.) Who protects against enemies; an epithet of Indra; Ṛgv.: tvaṃ na indra tvābhirūtī tvāyato abhiṣṭipāsi janān (Sāy.: abhiṣṭayobhigantāraḥ śatravaḥ . tebhyaḥ pātā rakṣako’si). E. abhiṣṭi (I.) and pā.

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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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Partial matches: Abhishti, Pa.

Full-text: Abhishti.

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