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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVāhanāgāra (वाहनागार).—(= Pali id.; °na plus agāra, āg°), stable for vehicles or beasts of burden: -śālā, a building serving as a stable for vehicles or beasts of burden: tadyathāpi nāma vāhanāgāra-(text vāhana-kāra-, no v.l.)-śālāyāṃ vā hastiśālāyāṃ (text both times °sālāyāṃ) vā jīrṇāyām ubhayato vivṛtāyāṃ Lalitavistara 254.9; em. proved by Tibetan bzhon paḥi (of vehicles or beasts of burden) bres (stable) khaṅ (house) ṅam (or) glaṅ poḥi (of elephants) bres khaṅ…; parallel in Lalitavistara 256.1 only vāhana-śālāyāṃ, perhaps by accidental omission, Tibetan as before; the em. also confirmed by corresponding passage in Mahāvastu ii.125.14; 127.1; 128.7; 129.9, where always vāhanāgāraśālāyā or °yāṃ, usually with no v.l.
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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