Deshanapatha, Deśanāpāṭha, Deshana-patha: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Deśanāpāṭha can be transliterated into English as Desanapatha or Deshanapatha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryDeśanāpāṭha (देशनापाठ).—(m.), sermon-reading, verbal instruction or text; according to Suzuki, always depreciative in Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra; so (thinks S.) °ṭha-kathāṃ Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 12.17 contrasting with tathāgatapratyātmagocarakathāṃ 16; I am not sure that I understand this passage, but deśanāpāṭhābhiratānāṃ [Page272-a+ 71] sattvānāṃ 14.2 is certainly depreciative; as to deśanā- pāṭhe 16.12, I am again uncertain; yāni deśanāpāṭhe (Suzuki, canonical texts) 'nusaṃvarṇitāny ānantaryāṇi 139.9, these are among the ‘external’ (bāhyāni, 139.6) acts-of-immediate-fruition; in 222.19 etad eva…mayā Śrīmālāṃ devīm adhikṛtya deśanāpāṭhe…, there seems nothing depreciative, even in Suzuki's rendering, this… was told by me in the canonical text relating to Queen Śrīmālā (viz., the Śrīmālāsiṃhanāda-sūtra?).
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: Desana, Patha, Pata, Patta.
Full-text: Shrimalasimhanadasutra.
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