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

Pratijāgrati (प्रतिजाग्रति) or Pratijāgarti or Pratijāgarati.—(also paṭi°; forms, see Chap. 43; the verb seems to be Vedic only, but a few Sanskrit noun derivs. are recorded; Pali paṭijaggati, defined in [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] nourish, tend, feed, look after etc., hardly covering the Pali range of meaning), (1) watches = stays awake (opp. sleeps): devī…pratijāgaritvā Mahāvastu i.154.16 (verse); (2) watches = guards: yāmaṃ °jāgreta Ud v.15 (= Pali paṭijaggeyya, Dhammapada (Pali) 157; the real meaning of yāma is obscure in both, but probably lit. night-watch, with thought of meaning 1 preceding; according to Dhammapada (Pali) commentary the three ages of man), not to be em. with ed. (°jāgṛyāt un- metrical!); kṛtyaṃ °jāgareta Ud xvi.1 (one's own acts); here, perhaps, kuśalapakṣaṃ (q.v.) °jāgṛhi Avadāna-śataka ii.145.2, etc.; (3) attends to, looks after: °jāgaranti Mahāvastu i.147.11 (apsarases…the toilet operations of the Bodhisattva's mother); (amātyehi) °jāgṛtaṃ ii.180.6, the ministers attended to, carried out (sc. what the king had commanded); yadā ekamātraṃ °jāgarti, tadā saptamātrāḥ saṃpadyante Divyāvadāna 124.9 (preceded by: sā yadaikaṃ vastu rakṣati tat saptaguṇaṃ syāt: perhaps rather with meaning 2, guards; but it may well be attends to a job); (4) prepares (food): °jāgaritvā Mahāvastu i.307.13; 324.8 (with mss. °jāgarayetvā, to caus., or °jāgaritvā); °jāgrāhi (impv., to °jāgrati) ii.274.12 (bhaktaṃ); iii.141.15; 255.8; 272.1 f.; Divyāvadāna 306.12 (food and entertainment); Avadāna-śataka i.257.14 (bhojanaṃ); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.233.17 ff.; (5) fixes up, decorates, adorns (orig. prepares, for a festive event), a place: yathājñaptāni sthānāni yathoktaṃ pratijāgriṣu Mahāvastu i.76.4 (verse), so read with v.l. for text pari-jā°, unless MIndic paṭi-jā° was the orig. reading, compare § 2.47 (this might account for pari° [Page363-a+ 71] of some mss.); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.264.2; especially of a road, way (usually mārga) over which a distinguished person is to pass, pratijāgratha (impv.), prepare, adorn, decorate, Mahāvastu ii.150.2; °jāgaretha (opt.) 153.14; °jāgariṣyāmaḥ iii.323.10; ppp. °jāgṛta- Mahāvastu i.258.16 (amātyehi ca sarvaṃ °jāgṛtaṃ yathā āṇattaṃ; could belong to 3 above, like Mahāvastu ii.180.6, but the king's command was to adorn the road); ii.111.8 (amātyehi…sarvaṃ °jāgṛtaṃ mahatā samṛddhīye pra- tyudgamanaṃ kṛtaṃ; situation like prec.); devehi mārgo °jāgṛto iii.324.10; °jāgritaṃ Mahāvastu i.270.13; ii.150.8; mār- gaṃ °jāgraṃsu (v.l. °jāgṛsuḥ; § 32.76) Mahāvastu i.259.3; in Mahāvastu i.231.11 some form of this verb seems to be intended, (daśakrośamārgaṃ) pratijāgṛhansuḥ (Senart, almost as one ms. which has °jagṛhansuḥ; v.l. pratigrahetsuḥ); Senart suggests contamination with prati-grah-, but this hardly makes sense; what was done is shown by the following (they made the road level, clean, adorned, etc., for the Buddha Dīpaṃkara to pass over).

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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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