Samskritadharma, Saṃskṛtadharma, Samskrita-dharma: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Saṃskṛtadharma can be transliterated into English as Samskrtadharma or Samskritadharma, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Saṃskṛtadharma (संस्कृतधर्म) refers to “conditioned dharmas”, as defined in an appendix of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter XXXI. Accordingly, “the sūtras of the āgamas and the nikāyas set out the three characteristics of conditioned dharmas (saṃskṛtadharma): production or origin, disappearance, and duration-change”.
Cf. Nidānasaṃyukta, p. 139: “there are, O monks, three characteristics of the conditioned that are themselves conditioned. What are these three? Of the conditioned, the production is object of consciousness; the disappearance is also object of consciousness; likewise the duration-change”.
According to chapter XLIX, “all conditioned dharmas (saṃskṛtadharma) are the result of four conditions (pratyaya): 1) the causal condition (hetupratyaya); 2) the immediately preceding condition (samanantarapratyaya); 3) the object condition (ālambanapratyaya); 4) the dominant condition (adhipatipratyaya).”
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Saṃskṛtadharma (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 作法 [zuò fǎ]: “rules of behavior”.
2) 有爲 [yǒu wèi]: “conditioned”; “created”.
3) 有爲法 [yǒu wèi fǎ]: “conditioned phenomena”.
Note: saṃskṛtadharma can be alternatively written as: saṃskṛta-dharma.
2) Saṃskṛtādharmā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 有爲 [yǒu wèi]: “conditioned”; “created”.
2) 有爲法 [yǒu wèi fǎ]: “conditioned phenomena”.
Note: saṃskṛtādharmā can be alternatively written as: saṃskṛtādharmāḥ.
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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