The Sanskrit term Pradakṣiṇāvartaikaromatā can be transliterated into English as Pradaksinavartaikaromata or Pradakshinavartaikaromata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

General definition (in Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Dharma-samgraha

Pradakṣiṇāvartaikaromatā (प्रदक्षिणावर्तैकरोमता) or Pradakṣiṇāvartaikaroma refers to “each hair arises singly and turns to the right” and represents the sixteenth of the “thirty-two marks of a great man” (lakṣaṇa) as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 83). The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., pradakṣiṇāvartaika-romatā). The work is attributed to Nagarguna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pradakṣiṇāvartaikaromatā (प्रदक्षिणावर्तैकरोमता):—[=pradakṣiṇāvartaika-romatā] [from pradakṣiṇāvarta > pra-dakṣiṇa] f. having single hairs on the body and all turning to the r°, [Dharmasaṃgraha 83.]

context information

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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