The Sanskrit term Dharmadeśaka can be transliterated into English as Dharmadesaka or Dharmadeshaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Dharmadeśaka (धर्मदेशक) refers to “one who teaches the dharma”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja, having praised the Lord with these verses, addressed himself to the Lord: ‘[...] The Lord, having known the meaning (artha), is skilled in the knowledge of the division of words. The Lord, having known the proper time, is always free of faulty prediction. The Lord, having known the proper measure, teaches the dharma accordingly to each individual (yathāpratyarha-dharmadeśaka) of all living being.[...]’”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Dharmadeśaka (धर्मदेशक).—m. (in Sanskrit rare and somewhat doubtful, see [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. deśaka; = Pali dhammadesaka, Childers, s.v. desaka, also app. rare), preacher of the law; = the much commoner dharma-bhāṇaka; in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], too, not common, despite the frequency of dharma-deśanā: nirāmiṣa-dh° Lalitavistara 436.2 (prose), of the Tathāgata.

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

1) Dharmadeśaka (धर्मदेशक):—[=dharma-deśaka] [from dharma > dhara] m. teacher of the law, [Pañcatantra iii, 104/105] ([varia lectio] mād).

2) Dharmādeśaka (धर्मादेशक):—[from dharma > dhara] See ma-d.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dharmadeshaka in German

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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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Partial matches: Desaka, Dharma, Tarma.

Full-text: Desaka, Niramisa.

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