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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryNirargaḍa (निरर्गड).—(1) adj. (= Sanskrit °la, Pali niraggaḷa), unimpeded, used as epithet of sacrifices in Sanskrit (among other ways), and so here apparently: yajñā nirargaḍa Lalitavistara 341.5 (verse); °ḍa-sarva-yajña- 432.17 (prose); °ḍa-yajñāḥ Mahāvyutpatti 2867 (but here could have meaning 2); (2) subst. m., name of a specific brahmanical sacrifice (also Pali, e.g. Sn 303; defined in commentary i.322.4 ff. as a specially elaborate and ‘unrestrained’ form of the aśvamedha; Pali Dictt. need correction on this), in lists of brahmanical sacrifices (as also in Pali Sn 303); (mahāyajñāni ca yajāhi aśvamedhaṃ puruṣame- dhaṃ) śamyāprāsaṃ (q.v., so read for text somaprāsaṃ) nirargaḍaṃ padumaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ ca Mahāvastu ii.237.20 (prose); aśvamedhaṃ puruṣamedhaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ nirargaḍaṃ 405.11 (verse); (aśvamedhaṃ) puruṣamedhaṃ śamyāprāsaṃ (so read) nirargaḍaṃ Divyāvadāna 634.7, similarly 11, 18 (°ḍo, n. sg.), 21; not in a list, but app. in this same meaning, yajño mayeṣṭas…nirargaḍaḥ pūrvabhave 'navadyaḥ Lalitavistara 318.8 (verse), I sacrificed a perfect nir° sacrifice in a previous birth. Above, in prose, the word nirgaḍa (2), q.v., is used instead.
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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