In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Parindāmi (परिन्दामि) refers to “entrusting someone” (with the teaching of incomparable complete awakening), according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as the Lord said to the Bodhisattva Maitreya: “O Maitreya, I entrust (parindāmi) you with this [teaching of] incomparable complete awakening, which has been established for countless hundreds of millions of aeons, in order that it will be memorized, understood, read, and elucidated in detail to others, in order to give thanks and gratitude to the Tathāgata, fulfill my aspirations, increase and purify many beings’ roots of good, make the Bodhisattvas attain the light of the dharma, subjugate all Māras, defeat all heretics, uphold the dharma of the highest meaning, and in order not to break the lineage of the three jewels”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Parindāmi (परिन्दामि).—(also parī°, anu-par°, qq.v.; peculiar to [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]; formation unexplained, see below), I present, hand over: °āmi Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 410.10; 484.5; Lalitavistara 443.9 (Lefm. paridāmy, read with v.l. parind°); ppp. parindita, see Parinditārtha, and Pargiter ap. Hoernle [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] p. 179, where parindita is read for parī° Vajracchedikā 20.4, 10. Could nasalized vowel -in- (-iṃ) be a substitute by the ‘law of Morae’ for parī-dāmi (compare ppp. parītta), and the forms with parīnd° be blends? Not satisfactory. But parī- occurs for pari-. Dr. Paul Tedesco would derive by the Morengesetz from *pariddāmi for paridadāmi with loss of -a-; as a parallel he cites Sanskrit ujjhāmi etc., which he also derives directly from uj-jahāmi with loss of -a-. That ujjh- is somehow derived from ud plus root hā, few will doubt; but I am not sure that this is the precise way (for a different one see Uhlenbeck s.v.); and I should like other examples of such loss of -a-.

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Parīndāmi (परीन्दामि).—(= parin°, q.v.), I present, hand over: °āmi Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 460.14; 461.12; ppp. °dita Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 218.18; Vajracchedikā 20.4, 10 (Pargiter ap. Hoernle [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 179 parindita).

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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: Anuparindami.

Full-text: Parindana.

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