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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPāṇisvara (पाणिस्वर).—(m.? in Mahāvastu ii.52.15 seemingly nt.; = Pali pāṇissara), probably recitation or singing to the accompaniment of clapping of the hands, a form of entertainment; [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary], a certain kind of musical instrument, but there seems to be no evidence for this; on the contrary, pāṇissare (acc. pl.; need not be personal, as [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] assumes) in Jātaka (Pali) vi.276.28 is expl. in commentary 277.1 by…ti pāṇippahārena gāyante; doubtless persons performing the same activity, to (especi- ally) waken in the morning and entertain a high personage, are meant by paṭhanti pāṇisvanikāḥ Mahābhārata 7.2912 (Nīl. hastena tālasvanaṃ kurvante, probably palm-clapping, not cymbal-sound; so [Boehtlingk] s.v. tālasvana), also 12.1899 (no commentary in Nīl.): pāṇisvaraṃ kumbhatūṇaṃ (see this) mṛdaṅgānāṃ svarāṇi ca…pratibodhenti Mahāvastu ii.52.15 (= Jātaka (Pali) v.390.25); pāṇisvarākhyāna- iii.122.17.
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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