Amitayu, Amitāyu, Amita-ayu: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAmitāyu (अमितायु).—Name of a Dhyānibuddha.
Derivable forms: amitāyuḥ (अमितायुः).
Amitāyu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms amita and āyu (आयु).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAmitāyu (अमितायु).—(or °yus; n. sg. always °yus), another name for Amitābha, q.v.: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 184.13; 419.3 (one ms. °tābha); Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 8.2; 120.6; Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 57.21; Sukhāvatīvyūha 32.13; 49.4; (in the ‘Smaller Sukhāvatīvyūha’ mentioned before, and oftener than, Amitābha: 93.3; 95.15 etc.).
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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