Pratyuddesha, Pratyuddeśa: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Pratyuddeśa can be transliterated into English as Pratyuddesa or Pratyuddesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPratyuddeśa (प्रत्युद्देश).—m. (substantially = Sanskrit uddeśa), direction, region, place, sometimes app. with added sense of specific, particular (prati): yehi °śehi teṣāṃ…gamano, tehi uddeśehi…Mahāvastu ii.251.19, similarly tehi tehi °śehi 252.2; anuhimavante (10 °ta-) °deśe iii.29.9, 10; dakṣi- ṇāpathe sāgaramukho nāma dikpratyuddeśas, tatra… bhikṣuḥ prativasati Gaṇḍavyūha 62.13, a place or region; so also 63.5; 529.4, dik-pra°; (samudrakaccho) nāma digmukha- praty° Gaṇḍavyūha 456.13 (the same place is called a janapada 466.16); (dakṣiṇāpathe samudravetāḍī) nāma pratyuddeśas tatra…udyānaṃ Gaṇḍavyūha 99.11 (the same place is called a pradeśa in 100.9-10).
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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