Akankshate, Ākāṅkṣate: 1 definition

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Akankshate means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Ākāṅkṣate can be transliterated into English as Akanksate or Akankshate, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Ākāṅkṣate (आकाङ्क्षते) or Ākāṅkṣati.—(compare kāṅkṣati, kāṅkṣā; in Sanskrit only desires, and so app. Pali ākaṅkhati), doubts: Mahāvastu i.165.3 ākāṅkṣamāṇā…vipaṇḍitā sattvā na jānanti…sukhaṃ samādhiṃ, creatures that are doubting and ignorant do not know bliss or concentration; perhaps Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 14.19 (pracalita- maulin) yad-yad evākāṅkṣasi ahaṃ te tasya-tasyaiva praśnasya vyākaraṇena, (O chief of confused ones,) what- ever you are doubtful about, by explaining every such question to you I (etc.) (otherwise Suzuki); Sukhāvatīvyūha 99.6 is interpreted by the ed. as mākāṅkṣayatha (i.e. mā āk°) mama ca teṣāṃ ca buddhānāṃ…and have no doubt both of me and of these Buddhas; but it could as well be mā kāṅkṣayatha (= kāṅkṣatha). (Also desires as in Sanskrit, e.g. Mahāvastu i.158.14.)

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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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