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Hastatva (हस्तत्व).—nt. (= Pali hatthatta, Jātaka (Pali) ii.383.9, with v.l. hatthattha, which is read without v.l. Jātaka (Pali) i.244.10; iii.204.19; iv. 420.17; 459.28, see below; v. 346.9; vi.582.21; it cannot represent Sanskrit hasta-stha, with [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary], being a nt. abstract, used only as obj. of a form of (ā)gacchati, barring an isolated *hatthattha-tā implied in °taṃ gato Jātaka (Pali) v.349.6; Critical Pali Dictionary s.v. attha = Sanskrit artha refers to hatthattha, perhaps implying analysis as *hastārtha; should we not read hatthatta always, with text in Jātaka (Pali) ii.383.9, supported by the Mahāvastu version, below, of Jātaka (Pali) iv. 459.28 ?), state of being in the hands (= power; of, gen.): °tvam āgacche vaṇīpakasya Mahāvastu ii.182.4, 9 (verse) = Pali Jātaka (Pali) iv. 459.28 hatthattham (read °ttam ?) āgañchi vanibbakassa. Cf. hastokta.
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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Full-text: Hastokta, Hatthattha, Vanipaka.
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Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
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