Aghanishtha, Aghaniṣṭha: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Aghaniṣṭha can be transliterated into English as Aghanistha or Aghanishtha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAghaniṣṭha (अघनिष्ठ).—doubtless understood as sky-based (see agha, 1), a class of gods: Mahāvyutpatti 3107, where it follows akaniṣṭha, of which it is surely nothing but a folk-ety- mological distortion. So Wogihara, Lex. It occurs in no other of my texts unless in Bodhisattvabhūmi; Wogihara reads so in 62.6 and 68.5; actually it is read only in the latter place by one of the two mss. (which reads aniṣṭha in the former place), while the other ms. reads akaniṣṭha both times. Wogihara's suggested interpretation, and those he quotes from Yaśomitra and Chin., seem to me fantastic and worthless. Cf. lokaniṣṭha.
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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Full-text: Lokanishtha, Akanishtha, Agha, Deva.
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