Pratipumgala, Pratipuṃgala: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPratipuṃgala (प्रतिपुंगल) or Pratipudgala.—(see pudgala), (1) = Pali paṭipuggala, and compare a-prati°, match, equal, counterpart: nāsti me pratipuṃgalaḥ Lalitavistara 406.3 (verse); (2) pl., several, distinct personalities, if text is right: tathāṣṭau prati- pudgalāḥ Dharmasaṃgraha 103; but text is badly corrupted here; the following list contains more than 8 items confusedly drawn from list found in Mahāvyutpatti 1008—28 and in Pali, Pug. p. 3.
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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