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

Nivāsayati (निवासयति).—generally as in Sanskrit puts on (a garment, regularly undergarment). So also Pali nivāseti, wrongly defined in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] to dress oneself…to get clothed or dressed. It is true that in the common cliché (kālyam eva, or the like) nivāsayitvā, Lalitavistara 240.11 (verse); Mahāvastu i.34.14; 54.10; 307.14; iii.60.3; 255.15; 272.5; 414.5; or nivāsya, Lalitavistara 407.13; Divyāvadāna 20.2; Avadāna-śataka i.290.16, etc.; no object is expressed. It is unnecessary to say what the monk puts on before starting his round of begging; the gerund however means strictly having put on (sc. the undergarment; compare [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 527.8 cīvaraṃ nivāsayiṣyāmaḥ, with Chin. translation(s); contrast prāvariṣyāmaḥ 529.1 ff., of the upper garment; same contrast in Pali, Vin. iv.185.18, 27). Once the verb is used in the causal sense of cause (someone else) to put on (an undergarment): Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 11a.4 nivāsanaṃ nivāsayitavyā, (the nun) is to be caused (by the instructress) to put on the undergarment.

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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: Samnivasayati.

Full-text: Nivasay, Pravrinoti, Samnivasayati, Nivasana.

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