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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryBodhisattvayāna (बोधिसत्त्वयान).—often = mahāyāna, the (great) ‘vehicle’ of the Bodhisattvas: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 79.6; 416.14, etc.; °yānika, adj., adhering to this °yāna: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 183.8 (bhikṣavaḥ…°nikāḥ); °yānīya, adj., id.: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 224.4; 285.8 (v.l. °yānika); Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 34.1.
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: Yana, Bodhisattva.
Full-text: Mahayana, Bodhisattva Yana, Hinayana, Yana, Arabhya.
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