Alternative spellings of this word include Pracharika.

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

Pracārika (प्रचारिक).—m. or nt., °kā, f., in pāda-pra°, journey on foot: (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 694.3—4, ūṣmāyamāne pādapracārikaṃ pañcayojanaśatāni gacchati, sarve cāsya pādapracārikā vaśyā bhavanti, if it steams, (it augurs that) he is going a journey of 500 yojanas on foot, and all foot-journeys come under his control; but the meaning in the next two is obscure to me: ūṣmāyamāne (as above!) pādapracārikāṃ (so!) pañcavarṣasahasrāyur bhavati (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 713.17, and: pāda- pracārike (! loc. sg.?) saptavarṣsahasrāṇi jīvati 718.8—9; in both of these it seems that omens of very long life are inferred, in the first depending on steaming of the offering; [Page357-b+ 71] the word pādapra° is obscure in application; perhaps read °rikāyāṃ for °rikāṃ in 713.17, and render both words in case of (his making) a foot-journey?

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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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