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The Sanskrit term Niḥśreya can be transliterated into English as Nihsreya or Nihshreya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryNiḥśreya (निःश्रेय).—(s) , adj. (Sanskrit niḥśreyasa and MIndic derivs. only in opposite sense, having no superior, supreme bliss, etc.), deprived of happiness or weal: (gṛhaṃ) niḥśreyaṃ saṃvṛttaṃ, sarvā lakṣmī antarahitā Mahāvastu ii.101.8.
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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