The Sanskrit term Ābṛhati can be transliterated into English as Abrhati or Abrihati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Ābṛhati (आबृहति).—(and āvṛhati; see also āvṛṃhati) both occur in Sanskrit in meaning extracts, draws out, and in Pali as abbahati, abbuhati, abbū°, abbāheti, id. (as, thorns); both are so used also in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]; but in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] they both (oftener, it seems, spelled with v) have also the meaning exclusively noted for āvarhati, restores (a monk to good standing), which in Pali is abbheti (noun, abbhāna), apparently from Sanskrit āhvayati. I shall record such mgs., even where texts read āb°, under āvarhati; in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] the two groups are not clearly distinguishable. They may even be identical in origin, as N. Dutt holds, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.74 n. 3 (withdrawal of offences committed by the monk implies restoration to good stand- ing); so also in essence, tho doubtfully, Finot, [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 488 n. 1. But on this theory it is hard to explain Pali abbheti (abbhāna), and I incline to believe that [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] has a second- ary and confused blend, in which a form close to the Pali, meaning recall, was adapted to the word meaning extract, remove.

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Ābṛhati (आबृहति) or Āvarhati.—also ābrah- (on origin and Pali relations see s.v. ābṛhati), frees a monk from religious disabilities (compare prec.): ābrahitavya, gdve., [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 488.1; ābṛhyāt, prec., 2; ābṛhita, ppp., 3; āvarhata Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.49.11; °hatu 51.9; °het 53.10; āvarhitavya, gdve., 49.17; °hitum, inf., 57.2; ppp. āvarhitaḥ 57.4; 58.18; āvrīḍhaḥ 74.6, 16; 75.10, 20, etc. (compare ābrīḍha to ābṛhati, extracted, s.v. ābṛḍha-).

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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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Ends with: Ardhabrihati, Latabrihati, Mahabrihati, Pratyakshabrihati, Shabdabrihati, Shvetabrihati, Urdhvabrihati, Vishtarabrihati.

Full-text: Avarhati, Atibaheti, Avrimhati, Abridha, Abbahati.

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