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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Ekatya.—(CII 1), ‘of one kind’. Note: ekatya is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Ekatya (एकत्य).—pronom. adj. (= Pali ekacca, Aśokan ekatiya, compare Senart's note Mahāvastu i.388 f.; nom. pl. once ekatye, Kāśyapa Parivarta 128.2, = Pali ekacce, but otherwise only nominal inflection), (1) sing. some one, anyone, in general and often hypothetical statements: Mahāvastu iii.213.2 yadaikatyo… pravraje(t), and id. 8, 12 yad ihaikatyo…; Śikṣāsamuccaya 76.7 [Page153-a+ 71] iha…ekatyo brahmacāriṇam ātmānaṃ pratijānīte; Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 44.1 ihaikatyaḥ paripṛcchakajātīyo bhavati; Kāśyapa Parivarta 122.2 ihekatya (read ihaikatyaḥ) śramaṇa(ḥ)…; Bodhisattvabhūmi 46.22—23 varam ihaikatyasya pudgaladṛṣṭir na tv evaikat- yasya durgṛhītā śūnyateti; 297.11 (tad yathā,) ekatyaḥ anuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau cittam utpādayati, and so 12, 14; Mahāvyutpatti 6733 ekatyaḥ = Tibetan khaṅ (read kha?) cig, or la la, defined some, several, a few; 7096 apy ekatyaḥ, see below; (2) a certain, an (unnamed) one: Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 26.19 (verse) dṛṣṭvaiva ekatyam iha pudgalam (his name has actually been given in the prose story); (3) any (one), any at all, substantially = each and every (similarly under pl., below): in a cliché, pañcāveṇikā (98.22 and 440.16 °ṇīyā) dharmā ekatye (98.22 ihaikatye) paṇḍitajātīye mātṛgrāme, there are five peculiar characteristics in any (= every) intelligent woman, Divyāvadāna 2.3; 98.22; 440.16—17; Avadāna-śataka i.14.7 etc.; ekatye niṣadya Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.196.2, sitting in any place at all; (4) pl. ekatyā(ḥ), once ekatye, some: Mahāvyutpatti 2289 manuṣyā ekatyāś ca devāḥ (Tibetan cig, or kha gcig); Kāśyapa Parivarta 128.2 ihekatye (read ihai°; nom. pl.; cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 196.12 ihaike) śramaṇabrāhmaṇo (read °ṇā with Śikṣāsamuccaya) bahūn dharmān paryāpnuvanti…; Divyāvadāna 327.16, 18 (correlative with eke, kāścit,…apare); Bodhisattvabhūmi 46.8, 63.8, 10; (5) some (only), some few: Mahāvastu iii.131.17 ekatyeṣu manuṣyeṣu caite (keep, with mss.; Senart em. naite) guṇā sulabharūpā ye imasya gajapotasya, and in (only) some few men are these virtues easily got, which…; (6) any, substantially = each and every, any and all (as in sg., above): Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 71.11 and 133.2 upamayaikatyā vijñapuruṣā bhāṣitasyārtham ājānanti, by a comparison (parable) in this world any intelligent men come to know the meaning of what is said; Mahāvastu iii.453.13 (verse) upamāye ihaikatyā arthaṃ jānanti paṇḍitā; (7) apy ekatyā(ḥ)…apy ekatyā(ḥ) (= Pali app-ekacca, mostly pl.), some…others: Mahāvastu i.23.9—11; iii.223.8—10; 443.18 ff.; Divyāvadāna 618.28 ff.; sg. only in isolated citation Mahāvyutpatti 7096 apy ekatyaḥ = Tibetan ḥon kyaṅ (= api) kha cig (some, several) ni; (8) tad- ekatyāḥ, pl. some: Bodhisattvabhūmi 98.9 °tyānāṃ śramaṇabrāhmaṇā- nām; 151.21; like apy ek°, correl. with another tad- ekatyāḥ, some…others, Bodhisattvabhūmi 125.17, 19; 296.22 ff.; 403.21 f. (ekāntena samyak pratipadyate sarvam eva, iyam ekā parṣat; ekāntena mithyā pratipadyate sarvam eva, iyaṃ dvitīyā parṣat;) tṛtīyā punaḥ parṣad yasyāṃ tadekatyāḥ samyak pratipadyante, tadekatyā mithyā pratipadyante; (9) see next.

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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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Starts with: Ekatyaru, Ekatyashashvatika.

Ends with: Apyekatya, Tadekatya.

Full-text: Shashvatika, Tadekatya, Apyekatya, Shashvatavadin, Shashvatadrishti, Ekatyashashvatika, Purvanta, Api.

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