Samvartani, Saṃvartanī: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySaṃvartanī (संवर्तनी).—(1) (to saṃvartati 1; compare vivartanī), (periodic) destruction (of the world): tejaḥ-saṃ° Mahāvyutpatti 8285, ap-saṃ° 8286, vāyu-saṃ° 8287; Tibetan ḥjig pa, destruction; daśadiśaṃ (in all directions, un versal) ca vāta-°nīṃ tejaḥ- °nīm ap-°nīm adhitiṣṭhati Daśabhūmikasūtra 91.27; tejaḥ-°nī prādur- bhaviṣyati Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 180.7, repeated below; kalpa-°nyāṃ, loc., Divyāvadāna 231.14; bhājana--saṃ° Abhidharmakośa LaV-P. iii.181; (2) according to Tibetan (ḥdu ba, assembling) and Foucaux, assem- bling: Lalitavistara 19.10 na bodhisattva ādipravṛtte loke sattva- °nī-kālasamaye mātuḥ kukṣim avakrāmati, not when the world has just begun to evolve, at the time of assembling of creatures; this is a meaning which saṃvartanī also has, according to LaV-P., Abhidharmakośa iii.182 note; in Lalitavistara, however, if we could assume a mistake of Tibetan, we might render at the time of world-destruction, as under 1, this being not identical with ādipravṛtte loke, but another time when the B. does not enter his mother's womb; (3) (to saṃ- vartati 2; compare Pali saṃvattanika) conducive (to; probably adj.): (dakṣiṇāṃ…) svarga-saṃvartanīṃ Divyāvadāna 229.12, 502.12. See next.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySaṃvartanī (संवर्तनी):—[=saṃ-vartanī] [from saṃ-vartana > saṃ-varta > saṃ-vṛt] f. destruction of the world, [Buddhist literature]
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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Partial matches: Vartani, Sam.
Starts with: Samvartaniya.
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