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

Bimbopadhāna (बिम्बोपधान).—mss. once °opahata, once °opana, nt. (related to Pali bimbohana, AMg. bibboaṇa, [Ardha-Māgadhī Dictionary], Prakrit biṃbovaṇaya, bibboa, bibboyaṇa, [Paia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo], all same meaning; doubtless a loan from a non-Aryan dialect, variously adapted by popular [etymology]), pillow, cushion: Mahāvyutpatti 8988 = Tibetan sṅas (pillow) naṅ (tshaṅs) can (?); Chin. thick pillow; Japanese pillow; Divyāvadāna 40.11 (here text vimbo°); 550.16; 553.9; sumeru parvatarājā °dhānam (v.l. bimbopanam, °mam) abhūṣi (sc. for the Bodhisattva) Mahāvastu ii.136.17 and 137.15; ubhayato-°dhāna Mahāvastu ii.115.16-17, having cushions on both sides, epithet of paryaṅka, couch, palanquin; also epithet of paryaṅkāni Mahāvastu iii.70.2, where mss. ubhayato-lohita- bimbopahatāni, Senart em. °bimbohanāni (= Pali); in MPS 7.5 °panair, probably corruption for °padhānair (with Tibetan).

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

Bimbopadhāna (बिम्बोपधान):—[from bimba] n. a cushion, pillow, [Divyāvadāna]

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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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