Adikaroti, Ādīkaroti: 1 definition

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

Ādīkaroti (आदीकरोति).—(see s.v. ādi), starts from (acc.), makes the starting point: ger. °kariyāṇa, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 192.1 (verse) avidya (acc.) ādīkariyāṇa cakṣumān, prabhāṣate maraṇam anantaduḥ- kham (so apparently mss., combining the note to KN ed. with that to Kern's Transl. [Sacred Books of the East] 21.185), starting with ignorance, the Enlightened One expounded death and infinit misery. This reading is perfect in meter and sense. Pos- sibly ādī is to be taken as a separate word, = ādiṃ; certainly it means the same as ādiṃ kṛ-.

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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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