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

Nagarāvalambaka (नगरावलम्बक).—m., and °ikā, f., seemingly city- washerman and -woman: m. only Śikṣāsamuccaya 9.4 tṛṇapradīpaṃ dattvā nagarāvalambaka-bhūtena (Bendall and Rouse, ignoring the fem. counterpart, inhabitant of the outskirts of the town, without evident justification); f. °ikā Mahāvastu iii.311.8, 18; 312.12 (no v.l.), apparently a woman whose job it was to hang out clothes (to dry?), compare 311.11 pāṃ- sukūlaṃ (which she has just presented to the Bodhisattva) vṛkṣaśākhāye olambitvā; the gerund seems to suggest her occupation. Senart Introd. p. xxix, étendeuse de linge (which is surely far better than his suggestion, note p. 505, that velambikā be read by em.; this is clearly impossible, see s.v. velambaka); Divyāvadāna 82.11, 28; 84.24; 89.20, 26 = Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.80.16 ff. (in these passages no light seems to be thrown on the meaning by the context).

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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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