The Sanskrit term Kṣepayati can be transliterated into English as Ksepayati or Kshepayati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Kṣepayati (क्षेपयति).—(1) spends, passes (time, with acc. kālam or some expression of time), is found in Sanskrit ([Boehtlingk and Roth] 5.1349), and the simple kṣipati is commoner in that sense (ibidem). It is strange that Senart, Mahāvastu i.n. 492, [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] on khepeti (s.v. khipati), and others have overlooked that fact, re- garded the usage as specifically Pali-[Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], and assumed confusion with kṣi, destroy. I have, to be sure, found no record of kṣepayati used absolutely in this sense in Sanskrit, as it is in Lalitavistara 276.11 (verse) brahmaśakrabhavane nityaṃ sukhaṃ kṣepituṃ, to spend (time) happily forever in the home of B. and Ś. (2) exhausts, brings to an end, obliterates; here influence of kṣi, destroy, might more reasonably be suspected, yet Sanskrit kṣip is sometimes used in nearly or quite the same sense, [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. kṣip 7 (2.549; but as [Boehtlingk and Roth] suspected, Mahābhārata Calcutta (see LV.) 3.1094 should be read kṣīyeran, not kṣiperan, see Crit. ed. 3.30.30); it probably is an extension of the meaning spend (time). So Divyāvadāna 367.8 (narakaved- anīyāni karmāṇi) kṣepayitvā, having spent (exhausted) their deeds that had to be suffered-for in hells, which may illustrate the transition from spend (time) to exhaust; the change is complete in Lalitavistara 237.13 (verse) saptarātra bhaṇamānu…sā viyūha na pi śakya kṣepituṃ, tho described for a week, this splendor could not be exhausted (‘spent’). But it is doubtful whether any of these uses are strictly non-Sanskrit

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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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