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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPradhvopaka (प्रध्वोपक).—(?) , m. pl., so (implausibly) Senart Mahāvastu iii.113.13; in a list of traders or artisans; mss. pradhvo- praka, prabdhopaka. Corresponds to iii.442.17 praccopaka (v.l. pracoḍaka). Wholly obscure.
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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