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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sahadhārmika (सहधार्मिक).—adj. (to prec., q.v., plus -ika; = Pali sahadhammika, which in the Dictt. is sometimes assigned this meaning, sometimes defined co-religionist, a meaning which need, and probably should, never be assumed in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], nor, I suspect, in Pali), consonant with the (true) Doctrine; m., of a person, one who lives in consonance therewith (the meaning having the same doctrine is given by Wogihara's Chin. renderings in Bodhisattvabhūmi Index but is never necessary and some- times impossible): °ke dharmaśravaṇe Śikṣāsamuccaya 55.6; °keno (m.c. for °kena) vacanena 194.7 (verse), compare Pali sahadhammiko vādānuvādo Vin. i.234.19—20, °ke vuccamāne Dhs. 1327; personal, yā ca °kasya darśanenābhipramodanā Bodhisattvabhūmi 30.11, joy at sight of one who is true to the Doctrine; °kaṃ ca dṛṣṭvā sumanā bhavati 184.26; (bodhisattvo vṛddhatara- kaṃ guṇavantaṃ…) °kaṃ dṛṣṭvā 161.12; °kasya bodhi- sattvasya kṛtapraṇidhānatayā 152.24, because a Bodhi- sattva that is consistent with the doctrine has (must neces- sarily have) made an 'earnest wish’ (vow for enlightenment); in the last the alleged meaning co-religionist is peculiarly impossible, but nevertheless given by Wogihara's Chin. (of the same Doctrine). On the Pali meaning see especially Mahā- niddesa 485.16 (a gloss on Sn 965) paradhammikā vuccanti satta sahadhammike ṭhapetvā ye keci Buddhe appasannā …(also dhamme, saṃghe), te bhikkhū etc.; note that even the paradhammikā here are monks, but have no faith in the Buddha etc.; in contrast the sahadhammikā (of seven sorts; which seven?) are in accord with the true doctrine.

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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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