The Sanskrit term Aśvagupta can be transliterated into English as Asvagupta or Ashvagupta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aśvagupta (अश्वगुप्त).—Name of a Buddhist teacher.

Derivable forms: aśvaguptaḥ (अश्वगुप्तः).

Aśvagupta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aśva and gupta (गुप्त).

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

Aśvagupta (अश्वगुप्त).—name of a son of Gupta the perfumer: Divyāvadāna 351.14.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Aśvagupta (अश्वगुप्त):—[=aśva-gupta] [from aśva] m. Name of a teacher, [Buddhist literature]

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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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Partial matches: Ashva, Gupta.

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