Samudrakalekhaka, Sāmudrakalekhaka, Samudraka-lekhaka: 1 definition

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

Sāmudrakalekhaka (सामुद्रकलेखक).—m. (or adj.), Mahāvyutpatti 8898; v.l. samudraka-lekha, so Mironov (and °lekhaka, from Minayeff, [Boehtlingk] 7.381, suggesting em. to sāmu°), one who is marked with (unfavorable) bodily marks and lines (in a list of bodily deformed persons); compare Sanskrit samudra, and prec.; Tibetan lag pa (hand) ḥjas te stebs (or ltebs) pa (= ?); Chin. one who has a weak and crooked hand; Japanese one with unlucky lines on the hand.

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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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