The Sanskrit terms Prātihāryasaṃdarśana and Prātihāryasandarśana can be transliterated into English as Pratiharyasamdarsana or Pratiharyasamdarshana or Pratiharyasandarsana or Pratiharyasandarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Prātihāryasaṃdarśana (प्रातिहार्यसंदर्शन) refers to “displaying great miracles”, 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, “Then the Bhagavān went to the residence of Vaiśravaṇa, the Great King, with a great retinue, a great assembly-gathering, a great host, an indication of great supernatural power, displaying great miracles (prātihāryasaṃdarśana)”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Prātihāryasaṃdarśana (प्रातिहार्यसंदर्शन):—[=prāti-hārya-saṃdarśana] [from prāti-hārya > prāti] m. a [particular] Samādhi, [Kāraṇḍa-vyūha]

[Sanskrit to German]

Pratiharyasamdarshana 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: Samdarshana, Pratiharya.

Full-text: Samdarshana, Pratiharya.

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