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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMaitrāyajña (मैत्रायज्ञ).—the personage otherwise called Mai- trakanya(ka) (q.v.): Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 50.16 etc.; 60.12; variants Maitra° and Maitre-yajña are cited by Lévi, p. 50 note 10, who conjectures a MIndic original *Metteyañña.
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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