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

Gahanatā (गहनता).—(app. = Pali gahaṇa, below; compare prec.), designates some sort of heresy: Śikṣāsamuccaya 172.3 (prose) idam agraṃ mithyādṛṣṭīnāṃ, yad uta gahanatā-dṛṣṭiḥ. Ed. note refers to Dhammapada (Pali) commentary iii.494.1 (on Dhammapada (Pali) 318 micchādiṭṭhi- samādānā) gahaṇa-saṃkhātāya micchādiṭṭhiyā samādin- nattā, from being taken by the heresy called gahaṇa; the domal ṇ suggests connexion with Sanskrit and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] grahaṇa, which Bendall says is also shown by the Tibetan rendering, which he quotes as gziṅs pa (connecting it with ḥdzin pa). The Dhammapada (Pali) context suggests that it consists in taking what is sinful for no sin, and vice versa; perhaps then lit. holding (perverse views on morals)? Unfortunately I find no other evidence for the heresy referred to, in either Pali or [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]. Bendall and Rouse: the chiefest of all false doctrine, that is, the heresy of clinging to the world (would this be called a false doctrine, dṛṣṭi?).

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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: Niggahanata.

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