Prativarnika, Prativarṇika, Prati-varnika: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPrativarṇika (प्रतिवर्णिक).—a. similar, corresponding.
Prativarṇika is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prati and varṇika (वर्णिक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPrativarṇika (प्रतिवर्णिक).—(var. °ṇaka), m., or °ṇikā (in meaning = Sanskrit pratirūpaka, which is also [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]; both = Tibetan ltar bcos pa, Mahāvyutpatti 6687-9), counterfeit, (false) imitation (of something, which usually precedes in composition): prajñāpāra- mitā-°ṇikaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 6687 (Mironov °ṇakaḥ); the gender of the first element makes °ṇikā seem preferable, and this is used in the same [compound] Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 112.16 ff.; tasyāḥ (sc. prajnā- pāramitāyāḥ) °ṇikām 113.3 (in the following passage it is said to consist in the doctrine that impermanence, anityatā, of the skandhas means destruction, vināśa, of them); na (sc. prajñāpāramitā-)-prativarṇikāpi 181.5, not even the counterfeit (of it); bodhisattva-prativarṇikaḥ 394.16, a counterfeit bodhisattva. In several of these passages there are parallels with pratirūpa(ka). (See Schmidt, Nachträge, for a different meaning in Sanskrit)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrativarṇika (प्रतिवर्णिक):—[=prati-varṇika] mfn. having a corresponding colour, similar, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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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