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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

avasarati : (ava + sar + a) goes down; arrives.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Avasarati, (ava + sṛ) to go down, to go away (to) Sn. 685 (v. l. BB. T. avaṃsari). (Page 83)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Avasarati (अवसरति).—(1) osarati, once oṣar° (?); on forms with sār- see below, but also caus. s.v. 1 osarati (compare Pali avasarati, osarati, to enter, to arrive, Critical Pali Dictionary), (1) approaches, arrives: Mahāvastu i.13.6 (verse) tasmiṃ narake osaranti, they arrive at this hell (otherwise Senart); osarantasya Mahāvastu ii.108.7, 9, 11, and °nto 10 (pres. pple.), approaching, drawing near; aor. avasāri or °riṃ, 1st or 3d sg., in phrase yena …tad avasāri(ṃ), arrived at, went to where…was (on the long ā see § 38.23; the corresponding Pali phrase is tad avasari, e.g. Vin. iii.11.30) Mahāvastu i.319.14, 16, 20; 323.13, 16 (in 16 mss. anusāri); ii.117.20; 119.6; 120.17; 123.16; iii.47.12; aor. with short ă, osare Mahāvastu ii.222.1 (mṛgābhimukhaṃ, approched, went up in the direction of the deer, in hunting); iii.364.19 vanāto so osare rāja- dhānīṃ; iii.453.3 (= Pali Jātaka (Pali) v.252.20), read: na te koṣṭhesmiṃ osaranti (go to, resort to; Pali upenti) na [Page076-b+ 71] kumbhe na kalopiyaṃ (see s.v. kalopī); Gaṇḍavyūha 241.13 ekaromi sugatasya osarī (3 pl. aor.), settled, lodged; osari Śikṣāsamuccaya 336.3 (read) prajñapradīpa ya osari, and 15; 337.3, 17; oṣaret (opt.) Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 449.3, see avaśirati 4, WT vajrāmaya-parvato yadi ghatanārthāya hi mūrdhni oṣaret, should alight, fall upon his head, which is perhaps possible; (2) osarati and its forms also are written for ośirati (avaśirati, q.v.); in my opinion this set of forms must be wholly unrelated to the above (despite Senart i note 380). Perhaps ośir° (or osir°) should always be read by em. when osar° occurs in the mss. in the meanings of avaśirati. Note especially Mahāvastu iii.1.4 osare(yaṃ), mss. (Senart osir°), but in 1.6 and 2.11 mss. ośirati in precisely similar context.

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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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Ends with: Pratyavasarati, Samavasarati.

Full-text: Avasata, Avasari, Osarati, Osarana, Oshireti, Avashirati, Oshirati.

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