Maitrakanyaka: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMaitrakanyaka (मैत्रकन्यक) or Maitrakanya.—(both forms occur in prose; corresp. to Pali Mittavindaka, and to [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] Maitrāyajña, q.v.), name of a merchant's son, later a Bodhisattva: °nya Divyāvadāna 589.4 (verse); 593.19; 600.3 (both prose); usually °nyaka, Divyāvadāna 590.4, 28; 592.1; 593.12, 28 (all prose), etc.; Avadāna-śataka i.193.1 (title); 197.13 ff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitrakanyaka (मैत्रकन्यक):—[=maitra-kanyaka] [from maitra] m. Name of a man, [Buddhist literature]
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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: Kanyaka, Maitra.
Full-text: Maitrakanya.
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Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Text Sections 272-273 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Text Section 274-275 / Stanza 21 And 22 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 6 - Avadāna of the sumptuous alms of Velāma < [Chapter XIX - The Characteristics of Generosity]
The lives of Mahātyāgavat < [Part 14 - Generosity and the other virtues]
Appendix 4 - Buddha’s subjugation of the elephant Nālāgiri (or Dhanapāla) < [Chapter XLII - The Great Loving-kindness and the Great Compassion of the Buddhas]