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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Pratisevati (प्रतिसेवति) or Pratisevate.—(sometimes written °ṣev°; Pali paṭi°; Sanskrit °te, devotes oneself to a person, once in [Boehtlingk]), (1) indulges in (pleasures, acc.): (active) kāmāṃ (kāmān, kāmā) Mahāvastu i.153.6 and ff.; Divyāvadāna 258.6; maithunaṃ (as in Pali, meth°) Mahāvastu i.199.13 (v.l. pari°) = ii.3.11; ii.3.10 (for which same line i.199.12 pari°); (māṃsabhojanam) °vitavyaṃ Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 254.6; adheres to (obstructive conditions, antarāyika, q.v., dharma) [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 514.6, 13 (°vato, gen. sg. pres. pple.); (2) makes use of (medicine), auṣadhaṃ °vanti Mahāvastu i.169.4; (3) undergoes the fruit of deeds, evil, or good: evil, vipākaṃ pratiṣevataḥ Udānavarga ix. 11; (middle) vipākaṃ pratiṣevate (evil), and °sevate (good), Udānavarga ix.14—15 = Pali Dhammapada (Pali) 67—68 where paṭisevati.

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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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