Alternative spellings of this word include Palikunchika.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Palikuñcika (पलिकुञ्चिक) or Palikuñca.—(m. or nt.), °cikā (to pali = pari plus a form of Sanskrit kuc-, kuñc-, bend, compare Sanskrit saṃkuc-, bring together, close; AMg. paliuñcai, in diff. meaning, conceals a fault, deceives), (thatched) hut, in most cases prec. by kaṭa-, of grass, straw: kaṭa-palikuñcikāyām, text, loc sg., Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 106.2; 107.7; 108.3 (all prose), but mss. vary greatly one v.l. each time palikuñce; niveśanasyo (so Nepalese mss., m.c. for °sya) palikuñcikesmin (read as one word, loc. of [Page337-b+ 71] °ka) Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 114.2 (verse; Kashgar recension has very different and certainly secondary reading; WT here °syopari ku°; this division is inconsistent with the above forms where kaṭa- precedes pali°; in these WT read kaṭapali-kuñc°, with printed hyphen! which I cannot interpret at all): Tibetan khyim gyi druṅ du rtsva yi spyil po na, in a hut of straw, or grass, near the house.

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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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