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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPratisaṃkhyāya (प्रतिसंख्याय).—ger. (compare pratisaṃkhyā, aprati- [Page372-a+ 71] saṃkhyāya, Pali paṭisaṃkhā-ya), having reflected, con- sidered (carefully, point by point): Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 73.5 (after quo- tation) iti prati°, so reflecting; Kāśyapa Parivarta 124.2 ff. prati° (śīlaṃ rakṣati), calculatingly (to gain a reputation for virtue); so in Bodhisattvabhūmi 129.27 na prati° dāsyāmi; other passages Bodhisattvabhūmi 8.9; 35.24; 255.13; tad (sc. food) api bhikṣavo mātrayā pratisaṃkhyāya paribhuñjanta iti Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.88.6-7, monks eat that in moderation, with careful consideration (compare Majjhimanikāya (Pali) iii.2.28 bhojane mattaññu hohi paṭisaṅkhā…āhāreyyāsi).
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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