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

Prajñapayate (प्रज्ञपयते) or Prajñapayati.—or °peti (in all mgs. = prajñā- payati, q.v., but commoner than it in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], tho not recorded in Pali; see the following items), (1) makes known, declares, teaches: kiṃ bhagavāṃ (mss.) prajñapento prajñapeti Mahāvastu iii.65.8, what does the Lord expound (teach) when he is expounding?, answered in 10, catvāro… dhātavaḥ prajñapento prajñapemi (or, v.l., °ti; Buddha is speaking; Senart misunderstands and em.); in iii.447.14 Senart em. prajñapeti (I am not sure that prajñapti of mss. may not be kept, as noun, n. sg.: there is a declaration, it is declared, viz., as follows); (yān, sc. dharmān… agraprajñaptiṣu ca) prajñapayanti Bodhisattvabhūmi 291.13; gurudhar- mān prajñapayāmi Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 4b. 2; yāvān kaścit sattvadhātuḥ (text °tur) prajñapyamānaḥ prajñapyate (pass.) Vajracchedikā 20.19, …being made known, is made known; defines, (taṇḍulā- hāratāye, or other instr.) śuddhiṃ prajñapenti (or °payanti) Mahāvastu ii.126.14; 128.1; 129.5, they define purity as (instr.)…; (2) arranges, provides (a seat): °payasva Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 410.8 (prose; mañcaṃ); °payet Mahāvastu i.325.8 (āsanāni; Senart em. prajñā°); °pīyanti, pass., ii.274.4 (āsanā); °petha iii.63.15 (āsanāni); °paya Divyāvadāna 20.8 (mañcaṃ), and so, prajñapya, ger. 10, and prajñapto (mañco) 11; °pitvā Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 194.3 (verse; āsana); °pya Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 203.2; (3) arranges, spreads out (a cloth or gar- ment, to sit on): ger. °petvā Mahāvastu i.238.12 (ajinaṃ); 318.15 (-saṃghāṭiṃ); °payitvā i.241.1 (ajinaṃ); tṛṇasaṃstaraṃ ii.131.14 (for himself; Lalitavistara parallel, 289.13, saṃstīrya); 268.3; prajñapya (uttarāsaṅgaṃ) Divyāvadāna 77.4; 465.30. See next.

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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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