The Sanskrit term Upaniśraya can be transliterated into English as Upanisraya or Upanishraya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Upaniśraya (उपनिश्रय).—m. (compare Pali upanissaya, but the usual Pali meaning does not seem to be quite paralleled here), (1) de- pendence, reliance: Śikṣāsamuccaya 32.4 sarvasattvā buddhopaniśra- yavihāriṇo (dwelling in reliance on the Buddha) bhavantu; Gaṇḍavyūha 462.17 kalyāṇamitropaniśraye vihāriṇo bodhisattvā(ḥ); 470.24 ye te sarvakalyāṇamitropaniśraya-vihāra-vihāriṇaś ca; (2) in Mahāvyutpatti 9194 °yaḥ, residence for a little while, tem- porary residence, according to Tibetan re zhig gnas bcaḥ ba, and Chin.

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Upaniśrāya (उपनिश्राय).—ger., postposition (= Pali upanissāya; § 35.20; also Sktized as upaniśritya, q.v.), near, with acc.: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 309.11 (prose) naite…devamanuṣyān upaniśrāya viharanti, they do not dwell near (in the company of) gods or men; Mahāvastu iii.223.16 (yaṃ…) grāmaṃ vā nigamaṃ vā upaniśrāya viharati.

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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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Full-text: Viveka, Upanishritya.

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