Alpasvada, Alpāsvāda: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAlpāsvāda (अल्पास्वाद).—adj. (subst. ? = Pali appassāda), affording little pleasure, in Mahāvastu i.121.4 perhaps subst., a sort of kenning for kāma (the Pali word is often an epithet of kāma, and sometimes seems to be a substitute for it). The Mahāvastu line (verse) is corrupt; perhaps alpāsvāda-nibaddho (or read °dhā?) means kāma-nibaddho; in the second half line surely lokā vartenti dāruṇāḥ is intended, rather than Senart's em.; as adj., e.g. Divyāvadāna 41.26 (mahāsamudro) 'lpāsvādo bahvādīnavas.
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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