Mahashravaka, Mahāśrāvaka: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Mahāśrāvaka can be transliterated into English as Mahasravaka or Mahashravaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMahāśrāvaka (महाश्रावक).—(= Pali mahāsāvaka), important disciple (of Buddha). In general [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], like Pali, knows no definite number or list of them (Vism. 98.26 speaks of the number 80); a typical list of 26 names in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 1.9 ff., but at the end it adds, ‘and others’; no number given in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 33.5; 121.1; Lalitavistara 6.15; Divyāvadāna 489.11, etc. Only (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa makes tentative starts at lists; twice it mentions groups of eight: (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 64.9 ff. Śāriputra, Mahāmaudgalyāyana, Mahākāśyapa, Subhūti, Rāhula, Nanda, Bhadrika, Kaphi- ṇa; but 111.11 ff. varies (1—2 = 2—1 of 64.9 ff.; then Gavāṃpati, Piṇḍola-Bharadvāja, Pilindavatsa, 6 = 5 above, 7 = 3 above, and 8 Ānanda, who in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 2.8 is a mere śaikṣa, excluded from the mahāśrāvaka group); in (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 40.25 Mahākāśyapa and Mahākātyāyana con- stitute a pair of mahāśr°; in 13.22 ff. is a very long list, including some familiar and many fanciful and textually doubtful ones; the same is true of the list of females, mahāśrāvikā, which follows in 14.19 ff. (beginning with Yaśodharā); the names in both these lists are omitted here as being largely unreliable.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāśrāvaka (महाश्रावक):—[=mahā-śrāvaka] [from mahā > mah] m. a gr° Śrāvaka or disciple (of Gautama Buddha or of a Jina), [Lalita-vistara; Hemacandra’s Yoga-śāstra]
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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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Partial matches: Shravaka, Maha.
Full-text: Punyakshetra, Rahula, Mahakashyapa, Nandika, Shravaka, Bhadrika, Kashyapa, Mahant.
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