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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAnyātaka (अन्यातक).—adj. (§ 2.15; = Pali aññāta, °taka; AMg. aṇṇāya; from Sanskrit ajñāta, in MIndic stranger), belonging to another or others; the word was unhistorically Sktized by association with anya, other: Mahāvastu i.346.11 ff. (repeatedly), e.g. adinnam anyātakaṃ śālim, rice belonging to others and not given (by them). In Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv. 107.11 spelled anyā- dakam (ed. em. ajñātakaṃ); Tibetan (Dutt, 108 n. 1) gzan gi, of another (anya!).
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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