Samvartati, Saṃvartati: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySaṃvartati (संवर्तति) or Saṃvartate.—(1) (= Pali saṃvaṭṭati) devolves, comes to destruction, opp. vivartati 2, q.v. for passages; compare saṃvarta and other prec. and foll. items; (2) (= Pali saṃvattati, not confused with saṃvaṭṭati), tends, is con- ducive (to, dat.): duḥkhakṣayāya °tati Mahāvastu i.246.13; abhe- dyāśayatāyai °tate Lalitavistara 31.13, similarly 14 ff.; duḥkhāyāhi- tāya °tante Bodhisattvabhūmi 7.10; cittasthitaye °tate 188.6, etc.
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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