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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryKarmaṇiya (कर्मणिय).—(= Pali kammaniya, compare next; Sanskrit °ṇya), effective, useful, clever: °yāni (ābharaṇāni) Mahāvastu ii.470.14 (prose; mss. karmāṇ°).
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Karmaṇīya (कर्मणीय).—adj. (= Pali kammanīya, often epithet of citta), dexterous, capable of work: mṛducitto °yacitto Mahāvastu iii.61.8; 62.12; -mṛdū-karmaṇīya-cittāḥ Daśabhūmikasūtra.g. 6(342). 12. In Pali mudu is similarly used, parallel with kammanīya. Cf. next.
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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