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

Praskandha (प्रस्कन्ध) or Praskanda.—(?), in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 54.8 (verse) adj., fallen, sinking: praskanda (sc. sattvān; acc. pl.) saṃsāri, (I see creatures) fallen into (sinking in) the saṃsāra; note in KN says praskanna is to be expected, and WT read so, by em.; Pali pakkhanna is said in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] to be often written pakkhanta; AMg. pakkhanda = moving, walking, Rat- nach.; in Lalitavistara 104.18 (prose) nānā-kudṛṣṭi-grahaṇa-(read gahana-, below)-praskandhānāṃ (so!, dh) sattvānāṃ, paralleled by Gaṇḍavyūha 288.13 dṛṣṭi-kṛta-gahana-praskandhānāṃ sattvānāṃ; Tibetan on Lalitavistara ḥthibs pos, dense, close, a covering, confirming gahana as in Gaṇḍavyūha for grahaṇa; khebs pa, cover- ing, for praskandha; see below, and note Dhātup. root skandh as v.l. for skand; twice Mahāvyutpatti has what may be the same word, but both times there are variants in the text, and northern translations are confused; Mahāvyutpatti 6815 praskandaḥ, v.l. °dhaḥ (so, °dhaḥ, Mironov); Tibetan ḥjug pa, or, ḥgro ba (both something like enter or move), or skem pa (dry up!); Chin. going in, or, going away; Japanese enter(ing); Mahāvyutpatti 7172 praskannaḥ, v.l. (with Mironov) praskandhaḥ (Mir. v.l. °ndaḥ, and, above line, skannaḥ); Tibetan rab tu zhug pa (entering), or byiṅ ba (sinking); so Chin., going inside, or sinking. The meaning sinking, as adj., which fits Sanskrit pra-skand-fairly well, would fit both the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka passage and the Lalitavistara-Gaṇḍavyūha parallel passages, of creatures sinking (entered would also be possible) in the thicket of heresy.

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Praskandha (प्रस्कन्ध).—see °nda.

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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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