Simhalata, Siṃhalatā, Simha-lata: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySiṃhalatā (सिंहलता).—some kind of ornament, placed on trees and stūpas, and in groves (on their trees?); precise meaning can only be guessed (Müller on Sukhāvatīvyūha ‘lion twists’; Senart, Mahāvastu ii note 553, ‘peut-étre…des enroulements combinés de feuillage et de lions’): Sukhāvatīvyūha 54.11 (among ornaments of Amitāyus's bodhi-tree); °tāhi…samalaṃkṛtaṃ bodhi- vṛkṣaṃ saṃjānetsuḥ Mahāvastu ii.311.13; siṃhalatāhi (or siṃho-, mss.; Senart em. siṃhī°, m.c.; better siṃhā° = siṃha°) sphuṭā bodhivṛkṣe (em., mss. sphuṭe °kṣo) Mahāvastu ii.317.8 (verse); (udyānaṃ…saṃchannaṃ…) °latā-jālaiḥ Gaṇḍavyūha 101.24; °latāḥ suruciravarṇasūtrā(ḥ) Śikṣāsamuccaya 302.2 (verse), in passage vaguely parallel to Mahāvastu ii.317.8; suruci° may be a parallel and independent ornament, rather than an epithet of siṃhalatā; here decorations of a stūpa.
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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