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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPratilayana (प्रतिलयन).—(app. to Sanskrit prati-lī-, Pali paṭilīyati, withdraws, turns back, and derivs.), should mean with- drawal (from), non-adherence (to): only in Gaṇḍavyūha 494.18, said of bodhicittam, (sārathibhūtaṃ) mahāyāna-pratilayana- pūrvaṃgamana-tayā; it seems probable that the true text was mahāyānāprati°, with neg., it acts like a charioteer because of the fact that it is accompanied (conditioned, see pūrvaṃgamana) by not withdrawing (holding back) from the Great Vehicle.
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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