Padastaraka, Pādāstaraka: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPādāstaraka (पादास्तरक).—m., and °raṇa, nt. (compare Sanskrit āstaraṇa, and Pali attharaka, rug), foot-rug: (antaḥpurasya arthāye…) pādāstaraṇāni pi kriyanti Mahāvastu ii.470.7, and…pādāstarakā pi kriyanti 11. In the same long sentence; what difference there may have been between the two is not clear.
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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