Alternative spellings of this word include Charayati.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Cārayati (चारयति) or Cāreti.—(caus. to car-), (1) distributes, casts (lots, śalākā, q.v.); so Pali cāreti, read at Jātaka (Pali) i.239.27—28 te kālakaṇṇi-salākaṃ cāresuṃ, for text °vāresuṃ: śalākā cāryate, a lot is cast, Mahāvyutpatti 9204, so read, text caryate; Mironov śalaka-caryā te, v.l. -caryate; Tibetan ḥdrim (pa), distribute; the process consisted in distributing small pieces of wood (śalākā) to serve as lottery-tickets; śalākāṃ cāraya, yo yuṣmākam utsahate…Divyāvadāna 184.15, and śalākāṃ cārayitum ārabdhaḥ 18; śalākāni cāretha (mss. dhār°) Mahāvastu iii.176.9, śalākāni cārīyanti (v.l. vār°) 10; (2) hands out, distributes (compare s.v. cāraka): bhikṣūṇāṃ cāraya, sa bhikṣūṇāṃ cāratum ārabdhaḥ Divyāvadāna 180.13, distribute (flowers) to the monks! and he began to distribute them to the monks; cāraya…peyām Divyāvadāna 462.4, distri- bute the gruel; °yati (here sc. garments, to monks) Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.106.2.

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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: Anuvicarayati, Nishcarayati, Paricarayati, Pravicarayati, Upavicarayati, Vicarayati, Vyavacarayati.

Full-text (+3): Car, Sampravicar, Pratyukcar, Praticar, Abhivicar, Pravicar, Sampracar, Anusamcar, Shilaka, Nishcar, Anucar, Samukcar, Caraka, Carayin, Paricar, Salaka, Uccar, Pracar, Careti, Samudacarati.

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