The Sanskrit term Avaśruta can be transliterated into English as Avasruta or Avashruta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Avaśruta (अवश्रुत).—f. °tā (= Pali avassuta; compare an-ava°; derived from Sanskrit root sru, for which even Sanskrit texts often read śru), (sexually) lustful: Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 27b.5 bhikṣuṇī avaśrutā avaśrutena puruṣeṇa…; 28a.3 (see s.v. saṃ- cagghati).

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Avasruta (अवस्रुत).—adj. (= Pali avassuta), wet, dripping, and so foul, rotten, orig. of a tree the inside of which is rotten, Pali Aṅguttaranikāya (Pali) iv.171.9 (rukkhāni) antopūtīni avassutāni kasam- bujātāni; fig., usually in Pali, and in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], of evil monks: Mahāvyutpatti 9138 antarpūty (read as separate word, see antaḥpūti) avasrutaḥ; followed by kaṣambaka-jātaḥ (see kaśambaka); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.50.7 antaḥpūtir °taḥ kaṣambaka-jātaḥ.

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Avāśruta (अवाश्रुत).—ppp. (to Sanskrit ava-ā-sru-, not recorded; compare Pali avassuta, taken by Critical Pali Dictionary as from ava plus Sanskrit sru-), descending in floods: Divyāvadāna 608.19 (verse, printed as prose) payomucaḥ…avāśrutāmbhaso.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Avasruta (अवस्रुत).—[adjective] flowed down.

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

Avasruta (अवस्रुत):—[=ava-sruta] [from ava-sru] mfn. run or dropped down, [Āśvalāyana-gṛhya-sūtra]

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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: Ava, Shruta.

Ends with: Anavashruta.

Full-text: Antahputi, Anavashruta, Kashambakajata, Avassuta.

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