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

Sālambha (सालम्भ).—m. (may be specialized use of sārambha = Pali id., which so far as I know is not recorded of phy- sical fighting; in some Lalitavistara mss. v.l. sār° occurs sometimes for this), app. (contest of) wrestling: °bhaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 4998 = Tibetan gyad kyi ḥdzin staṅs, lit. an athlete's style (or posture) of grasping, [Tibetan-English Dictionary] = saṃgrāho mallasya, saṃlambha (! not recorded elsewhere; probably [Tibetan-English Dictionary]'s ‘correction’ for sāl°), ‘the mode of seizing in wrestling’: (in lists of arts) asi-dhanu(ṣ)- kalāpa-yuddha-sālambha- Lalitavistara 4.21; 143.6; 144.8; in all these Tibetan as on Mahāvyutpatti above, and so also for °bha-(dhanur- vede) Lalitavistara 156.9; that wrestling is meant seems confirmed by Lalitavistara 152.10 ff., in which the Bodhisattva defeats the Śākya youths in what can only be wrestling (compare especially 152.18—20); our word occurs there several times, Śākyaku- mārāḥ sālambhāya sthitāḥ 152.11, stood ready for wrestling; similarly abhigatau °bhāya 12; °bhāyāgacchata 22; here, [Page594-a+ 71] however, Tibetan renders always by brgal ba (once preceded by stobs, force), a general word for fight.

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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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