Shrotapatti, Śrotāpatti, Srōtāpatti: 3 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Śrotāpatti can be transliterated into English as Srotapatti or Shrotapatti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Shrotapatti in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Śrotāpatti (श्रोतापत्ति) or Śrotāpanna.—see sro°.

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Srotāpatti (स्रोतापत्ति).—often writen śrot°, so regularly in Mahāvastu, Divyāvadāna, and mss. of Avadāna-śataka (= Pali sotāpatti), ‘entrance into the stream’, conversion to Buddhism, the state of the srota-āpanna, the first of the four stages of Hīnayāna religious development, the others being the states of the sakṛd-āgāmin, anāgāmin, and arhant; especially often in composition with -phala, the fruit of this attainment; con- tracted form °tāpatti regular in Mahāvastu, prose as well as verses, in other texts rare in prose (Divyāvadāna 17.21), used in verses where favored by meter (so, I believe, regularly in Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra, e.g. srota-āpatti-gati- 116.13, prose, srotāpatti-phalaṃ, mss. śro°, 65.9, verse); śrota-āpatti-pratipannaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 5131; śrotāpatti-phala Mahāvastu i.175.1 (verse); 312.13 (prose); iii.254.11 (prose); 346.13 (verse); śrota-āpatti-phala Divyāvadāna 46.26; 50.8, etc.; Avadāna-śataka i.65.1 (ms., Speyer em. sro°) etc., common.

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Srotāpatti (स्रोतापत्ति) or Srotāpanna.—see srota-āp°.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Srotāpatti (स्रोतापत्ति):—[from srota > sru] f. = srota-āpatti below.

2) [=srota-āpatti] [from srota > sru] f. entrance into the river (leading to Nirvāṇa), [Buddhist literature]

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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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Tamil dictionary

[«previous next»] — Shrotapatti in Tamil glossary
Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Srōtāpatti (ஸ்ரோதாபத்தி) noun probably from srōtas + ā-patti. (Buddhist Philosophy) A kind of meditation; தியானவகை. [thiyanavagai.] (மணிமேகலை பக். [manimegalai pag.] 81.)

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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