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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Prapatita (प्रपतित) refers to “falling (with the face downwards)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, “Merely upon the Garuḍa’s uttering this Vajra Beak dhāraṇī, eighty times ten million million hundred thousand great Nāga kings fell (prapatita) with their faces downwards, with perspiring bodies, blazing bodies, being unconscious, rolling on the ground [and said,] ‘greatly ferocious great dhāraṇī-mantrapadas had been uttered’ ...[”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prapatita (प्रपतित).—a.

1) Flown away.

2) Fallen, come down.

3) Decayed, wasted.

4) Dead.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prapatita (प्रपतित).—mfn.

(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) 1. Dead. 2. Decayed. 3. Fallen. 4. Come down. E. pra before, pat to fall, kta aff.

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

Prapatita (प्रपतित):—[=pra-patita] [from pra-pat] mfn. flown away or along, fallen, come down, fallen or got into ([accusative]), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prapatita (प्रपतित):—[pra-patita] (taḥ-tā-taṃ) p. Fallen; dead.

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

Prapatita (प्रपतित) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Payaḍiya.

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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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Partial matches: Pra, Patita.

Full-text: Payadiya.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Prapatita, Pra-patita; (plurals include: Prapatitas, patitas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)

Verse 6.10.20 < [Chapter 10 - In the Description of the Gomatī River, the Glories of Cakra-tīrtha]

Verses 5.8.36-37 < [Chapter 8 - The Killing of Kaṃsa]

Verse 2.23.18 < [Chapter 23 - The Killing of Śaṅkhacūḍa During the Rāsa-dance Pastime]

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