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The Sanskrit term Ākāṅkṣati can be transliterated into English as Akanksati or Akankshati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryĀkāṅkṣati (आकाङ्क्षति) or Ākāṅkṣate.—(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.)
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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