Maitrasata, Maitrāsatā: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMaitrāsatā (मैत्रासता).—(maitrāsa-tā) (for *maitrāṃśa-tā, below; § 3.3), loving- kindness, benevolence, is the stem to be assumed Mahāvastu iii.373.11 (verse), where read: maitrāsatāṃ (or °taṃ, MIndic for °tāṃ; mss. cited as °naṃ or °na; Senart em. maitrābhāvanāṃ, metrical(ly) impossible and otherwise implausible) bhāvaye apramatto, maitreṇa cittena hitānukampī, etc. The stem maitrāsa = Pali mettāsa, which occurs as v.l. for met- taṃso Itiv. 22.4; in the same verse Jātaka (Pali) iv.71.25 mettaṃso is glossed 72.5 by metta-koṭṭhāso (for *koṭṭhaṃso!) met- tacitto; the word is a noun, not an adj. as stated in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary], and means the same as [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] maitrāsa-tā (for *maitrāṃ- śatā); otherwise [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] records only maitra (adj.) as separate word with aṃśa (q.v., 2) in the meaning of the [compound] The use of -āsa for -āṃśa (Pali -aṃsa) is confirmed by Pali koṭ- ṭhāsa.
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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