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

Praṇāmeti (प्रणामेति) or Praṇāmayati.—(in mgs. 1 and 2 = Pali paṇā-meti; compare also abhi-praṇam°), (1) with object añjali, makes (a gesture of reverence); so also praṇamya and praṇamayya, see s.v. praṇamati; was the lit. meaning bends, or extends, holds out, as in (2)?: añjaliṃ praṇāmetvā Mahāvastu i.255.12; °liṃ praṇāmayitvā Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 100.5 (prose; so KN with Kashgar recension, Nepalese mss. and WT praṇamya); Mahāvastu iii.97.9; praṇāmehi añjaliṃ Mahāvastu iii.358.2; (2) holds out, holds forth, extends, e.g. a hand or arm: hasto praṇāmito Mahāvastu ii.450.3, the hand was extended (to pluck flowers); (ekaśṛṅgasya hastaṃ) praṇāmi (aor.) Mahāvastu iii.147.19, held out her hand to E.; (bāhā) praṇāmitā iii.313.13; also a bowl, pātraṃ… praṇāmaye (aor.) Mahāvastu i.303.14, held out his bowl (for inspec- tion); so in Pali, pattaṃ paṇāmetvā Vin. ii.216.11 means holding out his bowl (with his right hand; wrongly [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] and [Sacred Books of the East] 20.88, 290—1); (3) gives, furnishes, provides (in this sense app. not in Pali, but AMg. and other Prakrit paṇāmai, °mei, offers, Hindi arpaṇ karnā, [Ardha-Māgadhī Dictionary] 3.440 and Sheth 652), doubtless as specialization of holds out towards: so app. dhārmyāṃ kathāṃ praṇāmaye (aor.) Mahāvastu iii.446.9, presented, gave a sermon; possibly daṇḍo praṇā- mayitavyo Mahāvastu ii.457.3, punishment must be given (i.e. administered, meted out), but here v.l. pradāpayitavyā (for °vyo), must be caused to be given. (In Lalitavistara 172.2 (verse) kāyu praṇāmi (probably verb, aor., not noun with Senart Mahāvastu i note 427; Tibetan lus btud) bowed your body, the meaning is substantially Sanskrit)

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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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