Apasvapana, Apasvāpana: 1 definition

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Apasvāpana (अपस्वापन).—nt. (no form or derivative of apa-svap is otherwise recorded; perhaps hyper-Sanskrit for ava-svāpana, see o-svāpana and ava-svāpayati), going to sleep or sleeping: Mahāvyutpatti 6639 = Tibetan gñid kyis log pa; Lalitavistara 217.7 °nam akurutām, (two gods) caused a going-to-sleep (of the people of Kapilavastu). We should expect a caus. meaning, putting to sleep; and this may be the meaning in the Lalitavistara passage (made a putting to sleep); but the Tibetan is very definitely non-caus., and [Tibetan-English Dictionary] cites apasvāpana for the same Tibetan

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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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