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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Rangjung Yeshe Wiki: Dharma Dictionary

Pramardaka (प्रमर्दक) refers to the “crushing (adversaries)” and represents one of the twenty-one emanations of Tārā according to the Kashmiri Mahasiddha Suryagupta Tradition.—Suryagupta or Ravigupta (Tibetan: nyi ma be pa) was a layperson from Kashmir that was cured of leprosy by a miraculous statue of the goddess Tara. Suryagupta is famous for having many visions of Tara and originating many lineages of her practice such as the Twenty-one forms of Tara [e.g., Vādi-pramardaka-tārā]. There exists inscriptions and paintings (from the 14th century) of these Twenty-one Taras and they are also described in ritual and meditation texts in both Sanskrit and Tibetan language.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Pramardaka (प्रमर्दक).—adj., m. (Sanskrit pra-mard- plus -aka, but nowhere recorded), destroying, one who destroys: sar- vāpara-°ka(ḥ) Lalitavistara 433.2, of Buddha; chiefly in a cliché describing heroic sons, gen. pl. parasainya-°kānāṃ Mahāvastu i.49.5; 193.18; ii.158.17; iii.378.1; Divyāvadāna 548.28; Gaṇḍavyūha 399.15; Lalitavistara 18.6-7; in Lalitavistara 22.7 same [compound], gen. pl., which here seems to have been carelessly repeated from the cliché (tho no v.l. is reported); a n. sg. is required, like the prec. series of epithets of a king.

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

1) Pramardaka (प्रमर्दक):—[=pra-mardaka] [from pra-mṛd] mfn. crushing down, crushing, destroying, [Lalita-vistara]

2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a demon, [ib.]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Pramardaka (प्रमर्दक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pamaddaya.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pramardaka in German

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pra, Mardaka.

Ends with: Marapramardaka, Vadipramardaka.

Full-text: Pamaddaya, Vimardaka.

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