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

Parāhanati (पराहनति).—(also °ṇati), °hanti (not recorded in MIndic; in Sanskrit not in this meaning; compare parāhaṇana), strikes; especially a drum (bherī, dundubhi, either lit., or fig. dharma-bh°, du°, the drum of the law): °hananti Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 12.12 (read °tī m.c.); 69.11; °haṇe, 1 sg. opt., Mahāvastu i.42.8; °hanasva (Kashgar recension °hanāhi) Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 178.10; °haniṣyati Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 421.8; °haniṣyasi Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 90.9; °ghnanto, pple., Sukhāvatīvyūha 61.2; °hanantaṃ Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 20.8; °hanyamānair, pass. pres. pple., Lalitavistara 274.12; °hatā Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 62.3; a gong (gaṇḍī), °hatya, ger., Avadāna-śataka i.272.1; vāditra- bhāṇḍāni parāhatāni Divyāvadāna 203.14; (piṇḍapātaṃ) parāhatya Avadāna-śataka ii.156.2; the earth (mahī, pṛthivī, dharaṇī) °hanti Lalitavistara 266.14; °hanati Mahāvastu ii.282.8; °hatya Gaṇḍavyūha 221.23; °hanitvā Lalitavistara 12.19 (verse).

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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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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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