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The Sanskrit term Deśayati can be transliterated into English as Desayati or Deshayati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryDeśayati (देशयति) or Deśeti.—(= Pali deseti; see also diśati, 2, 3), (1) communicates, teaches: Mahāvyutpatti 2770; almost always with dharma, the Doctrine, as object, and very common everywhere: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 63.10 (ppp. deśitu, dharma), 12; 92.14; 199.7; 264.6; 317.10; Lalitavistara 409.10; 416.22; Mahāvastu i.52.11; 60.6; 73.10 (deśitā daśabalena, subject skandhā); iii.51.12; 201.9; 357.11; dharma in different sense, (nāhaṃ…ye) dharmā anityās te nityato deśayāmi Mahāvastu i.173.2, I do not teach that states-of-being which are impermanent are per- manent; deśanām Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 28.11 and 29.1; deśayāmo Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 6b.1, communicate. make known; text ppp. deśayito, yo imu Bhadracarī-praṇidhānaṃ dhārayi vācayi deśayito vā Bhadracarī 54, but read opt., deśay’ ito vā, or teaches from it; (2) confesses: see s.v. atyaya, where Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 210.1; 212.7; Lalitavistara 409.22 are cited; tat (pāpakaṃ karma) sarvaṃ deśayiṣyāmi Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 25.4; similarly 27.8, 10 etc.; (karma kṛtaṃ…) deśayati Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 47.26; see also deśya; (3) displays, exhibits, in the sense of darśayati: deśenti Mahāvastu i.170.2, cited s.v. upadeśeti, q.v. for reasons against em. to darś°.
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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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
III. Limits to the salvific action of the Buddhas < [Part 4 - Assuring the continuity of the Buddha universes]
Act 9.1: Description of the Ratnāvatī universe and the Buddha Ratnākara < [Chapter XV - The Arrival of the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions]
Bhūmi 1: the joyous ground (pramuditā) < [Chapter XX - (2nd series): Setting out on the Mahāyāna]
Buddhism: An Integrated Interpretation < [January – March, 1984]
The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Chapter XIV - The great renunciation < [Volume II]