Ankadhatri, Aṅkadhātrī, Anka-dhatri: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAṅkadhātrī (अङ्कधात्री).—nurse who carries a baby on her hip: Mahāvyutpatti 9478; Divyāvadāna 475.12, defined 13—14: aṅkadhātrīty ucyate yā dārakam aṅkena parikarṣayaty aṅgapratyaṅgāni ca saṃsthāpayati.Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti paṅ na = aṅka, which it seems must be the orig. form, since in India babies are carried on the hip. Yet in all other cases the word is written aṃsa-dh° (or aṃśa-, in mss. also atsa-), and this seems to have had real currency, as shown s.v. For the cliché see s.v. kṣīra-dhātrī.
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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Partial matches: Dhatri, Anka.
Full-text: Parikarshayati, Parikarshayate.
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