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

Nirminati (निर्मिनति) or Nirminoti.—(also with domal ṇ), and nirmimīte (see also abhi-nirm°, which has perhaps even more variations of inflexion; = Pali nimmināti, °nati; Sanskrit only nirmimīte or °mimāti, used without the implication of 'magic' which is almost always present in Pali and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]), (1) rarely creates, builds, without implication of ‘magic’, as in Sanskrit nirmimīte: Divyāvadāna 59.15 maṇḍalavāṭaṃ nirminu (impv.), and 18 °vāṭo nirmito; (2) regularly, as in Pali, creates by magic: (A) forms implying presents in nirmin- [Page303-a+ 71] (compare nirminu, above): nirmiṇati Mahāvastu i.179.7 (mss. °miśati, Senart em., certainly rightly, compare nirmito 10); opt. nirmi- nuyām Divyāvadāna 50.3; aor. nirmiṇi Lalitavistara 219.19; nirmiṇe Mahāvastu i.189.6; ger. nirmiṇitvā Mahāvastu iii.282.15; nirmiṇiya (mss. °ye) Mahāvastu i.366.10; (B) forms of the pres. nirmimīte, and others from Sanskrit root mā: nirmimīte Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 245.11; Lalitavistara 290.20; (perf. nirmamire, Buddhacarita iii.26;) ger. nirmāya Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 8.2; (C) ppp. nirmita (see also s.v.), magically created, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 242.8, 9, 11; 247.12; 248.10 (svān nirmitān…viditvā, seeing his own magically created persons, sc. tathāgatān ?); 307.4 (ye te tathāgatā…) śākyamunes tathāgatasya nirmi- tā(ḥ), the Tathāgatas magically created by Śākyamuni; note gen.!); Lalitavistara 45.11 nirmitapure; 237.7 kaṇṭhaka…trāyatriṃ- śabhavane sunirmito (? mss. corruptly °mitāpsaraiḥ, but the word apsaraiḥ belongs to the next line), being magically created (i.e. brought into existence) in the heaven of the Tr.; 350.19 nirmitām (acc. pl. m.) abhinirmiṇvanti they create-by-magic magic personages, compare Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 248.10 above; Mahāvastu i.270.13; 365.17; Divyāvadāna 50.4; 128.17; (3) in Mahāvastu ii.176.12, 14 nirmiṇeyā, opt. (in 14 by em.) used in sense of exchange (one thing, acc., for another, instr.); this = Pali nimināti, used in the same verse in Pali, Jātaka (Pali) iii.63.9, 10. Meter guarantees, and perhaps is the reason for, nirmi° in Mahāvastu. See nirmitaka.

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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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Ends with: Abhinirminati.

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