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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPratihanyati (प्रतिहन्यति) or Pratihanyate.—(pass. of Sanskrit prati-han-), (1) is struck against (to Sanskrit prati-han-, rarely, [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v.l): yatra …indriyāṇi °yante te viṣayā ity ucyante Śikṣāsamuccaya 251.12, the things against which the senses are struck (wrongly Bendall and Rouse) are called the sense-objects (compare prati- hanyanā); (2) is echoed, of sound: (mahārāvaṃ ravan- tānāṃ ca śabdo…) parvatehi °yante (so mss.) Mahāvastu i.6.2; (3) is reflected, of light: in Senart's text pratyahanyanti Mahāvastu i.6.9 ff., repeatedly, with most or all mss.; in i.7.9 pratyāhanyanti, with some mss., others pratya°; but in i.25.14 ff., in similar passage, all mss. repeatedly prati- hanyanti, which is probably what the passages all mean; compare § 32.8.
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