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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sphāleti (स्फालेति) or Sphālayati.—or (?) °lati, (= Pali phāleti, trans. and intrans., see below; Sanskrit Gr. sphalati, intrans., and in cpds. sphālay-as caus.-trans.), bursts, intrans. (possibly also trans. ?): saptadhā mūrdhnaṃ (n. sg.) sphāleyā (so [Page613-b+ 71] mss., Senart em. sphal°) Mahāvastu iii.114.12 (prose), the head would burst in seven pieces; so in Pali, muddhā me sattadhā phāleyyā (one ms. phal°) Dhammapada (Pali) commentary i.17.20; sīsaṃ pi no sattadhā phāleyyā (no v.l.) i.134.16. In Avadāna-śataka i.339.9 (prose) Speyer reads by em. (niyataṃ devasya saptadhā mūrdhānaṃ) sphālayāmi, I will cause to burst…; but the mss. clearly point to a 3 sg. verb (followed by iti), which would have to be intrans., implying that mūrdhānaṃ represents a n. sg. (compare §§ 17.37, 39); so Feer translates, la tête…se fendra…, without stating the reading of his ms.; I suspect we should read sphāleyeti or sphālayatīti.

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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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