The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhasvarasamācāra can be transliterated into English as Sankhasvarasamacara or Shankhasvarasamacara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Shankhasvarasamachara.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Śaṅkhasvarasamācāra (शङ्खस्वरसमाचार).—adj. m. (Pali saṅkassara, usually [compound] with samācāra, or sometimes ācāra; sometimes the Pali [compound] begins with asuci-; Pali comms., e.g. Pugg. commentary 207.5 ff., Dhammapada (Pali) commentary iii.485.1 ff., have various labored and implausible interpretations assuming connexion with saṅkā = Sanskrit śaṅkā, root śaṅk), of vile conduct; [etymology] and precise meaning unknown; follows kaṣambaka-jāta (see kaś°) in Mahāvyutpatti, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya, and occurs in the same cliché in Pali, referring to wicked monks: Mahāvyutpatti 9140; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.50.7; Śikṣāsamuccaya 64.5. Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti cited as lug pon (?) ltar (like) spyad pa (conduct); Mahāvyutpatti 9141 and 9142 (not in Mironov) are given as synonyms or variants, khānta-samācāra and saṃkasu (note k, not kh) samācāra; Tibetan this time (on 9141) luṅ rul-ba (rotten, see s.v. kaśambaka-) lta-bur gyur-pa; Japanese rendering of 9142 contains the word rotten. Both Mahāvyutpatti 9141 and 9142 seem evident corruptions, and śaṅkha-svara- looks like an unhistoric (hyper-Sanskrit) form. The Tibetan renderings are probably also corrupt; at least the Tibetan Dictt. give no clue to what they might mean. Perhaps luṅ (on Mahāvyutpatti 9141), and maybe even lug (on Mahāvyutpatti 9140), may be corrupt for duṅ = Sanskrit śaṅkha, shell.

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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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Partial matches: Shankhasvara, Samacara.

Full-text: Khantasamacara, Samkasusamacara.

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