Pratisamliyate, Pratisaṃlīyate: 1 definition

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[«previous next»] — Pratisamliyate in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pratisaṃlīyate (प्रतिसंलीयते).—(compare prec. items; Pali paṭisallīyati, °liyati, only in meaning of [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] pratisaṃlayati), retires in the sense of goes to bed: (dharmatā khalu Buddhānāṃ… na tāvad) upasthāyakāḥ °līyante na yāvad Buddhā… °līnāḥ Divyāvadāna 90.13, …attendants of Buddhas do not go to bed until Buddhas have gone to bed (and put out lights; context demonstrates this meaning).

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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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