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

Krīḍanikā (क्रीडनिका).—rarely °nakā, with or without dhātrī (compare AMg. kīlaṇa-dhāī, and also krīḍāpanikā, s.v. °naka), a nurse who amuses (plays with) an infant, regularly as one of four kinds of nurses: with dhātrī, Mahāvyutpatti 9481; in a cliché, Divyāvadāna 99.26; 271.20; 441.23; Avadāna-śataka i.15.12 (very often); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.132.21 and (°nakā) iii.134.8; without dhātrī, in same cliché, Divyāvadāna 3.13; 58.13; Avadāna-śataka i.219.10; 346.5; 360.1, and in some other places (but less often). See s.v. kṣīra-dhātrī.

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

Krīḍanikā (क्रीडनिका):—[from krīḍanaka > krīḍ] f. a nurse who entertains children with plays, [Divyāvadāna]

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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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