Prageva, Prāgeva, Prag-eva: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPrāgeva (प्रागेव).—(= Pali pageva; compare Kunst, BSOS 10.983 f.; in Sanskrit = formerly, and so sometimes in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], e.g. Lalitavistara 235.18), in sense of Sanskrit kim u, kim uta, how much more (or less), a fortiori, not to speak of…: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 141.4 (taṃ śrotuṃ na samartho 'si prāg evānyaṃ vidūrataḥ); Mahāvastu iii.251.6; 356.11; 359.15; 360.11; Lalitavistara 154.16, 20; 313.20; 314.18; 338.18; Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 17.2; 244.14; 251.3; Divyāvadāna 51.4; 90.25; 102.16; 108.17; 110.21; 185.10; 241.6; Avadāna-śataka i.89.3; 248.3; Jātakamālā 33.14; 40.19, 23; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 7.1; 89.5; Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 56.19; Śikṣāsamuccaya 21.7; Kāraṇḍavvūha 20.15, 22; 52.21 (note wrong paragraph division, showing editorial misunderstanding); (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 292.9; Gaṇḍavyūha 48.25; 160.4; 176.8; Bodhisattvabhūmi 3.11; Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 164.15; very common in most texts; occurs even in some texts the vocabulary of which is otherwise virtually standard Sanskrit, e.g. Buddhacarita iv.10, 81; xi.7.
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: Atiprageva.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 10.87 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Text 4.92 < [Chapter 4 - First-rate Poetry]
Vivekachudamani (by Shankara)
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 3037 < [Chapter 25 - Examination of the Doctrine of ‘Self-sufficient Validity’]
Verse 2470-2471 < [Chapter 24b - Arguments against the reliability of the Veda (the Revealed Word)]
Verse 2306-2309 < [Chapter 24a - The case for the reliability of the Veda (the Revealed Word)]
Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika (by R. Balasubramanian)
Verse 1.164 < [Book 1 - Śīkṣāvallī]
The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa (by Dhrubajit Sarma)
Part 2f - Rasa (6): Bhayānaka or the sentiment of terror < [Chapter III - Literary Assessment Of The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
II. Penetrating the mind of the Buddhas < [Part 7 - Seeing, hearing and understanding all the Buddhas of the present]
Bhūmi 2: the stainless ground (vimalā) < [Chapter XX - (2nd series): Setting out on the Mahāyāna]