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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sattvāvāsa (सत्त्वावास).—m. (= Pali sattāvāsa), abode of beings. Nine such are listed Mahāvyutpatti 2288—97 and in Pali Dīghanikāya (Pali) iii.263.9 ff.; in both lists an example only (not an exhaustive enu- meration) is cited under each ‘abode’. The first includes all men and lower beings, and the kāmāvacara gods; the 2d, 3d, and 4th are the gods of the 1st, 2d, and 3d dhyāna- bhūmi (of the rūpāvacara gods); then in Mahāvyutpatti come as Nos. 5—8 incl. the 4 classes of arūpāvacara gods, and finally as an example of No. 9 the asaṃjñisattva (q.v.) gods; but this arrangement is certainly erroneous; Dīghanikāya (Pali) iii.263.19 correctly puts the asaññasatta gods (who belong to the 4th dhyānabhūmi of rūpāvacara) in the 5th satt(v)ā- vāsa (the śuddhāvāsakāyika doubtless belong here too), while the four arūpāvacara classes constitute the 6th to 9th incl. In Mahāvyutpatti the first four are characterized respectively as nānātvakāyā nānātvasaṃjñinaḥ, nānātvakāyā ekatva- saṃjñinaḥ, ekatvakāyā nānātvasaṃjñinaḥ, ekatvakāyā ekatvasaṃjñinaḥ. Cf. Abhidharmakośa LaV-P. iii.22, n. 4.

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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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