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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVaiyāpatya (वैयापत्य).—(only [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins]), °pṛtya (always in Śikṣāsamuccaya ms., Bodhisattvabhūmi.; once seems intended in Avadāna-śataka, ii.13.5, see Speyer's note), °vṛtya (other texts, incl. Avadāna-śataka usually; = Pali veyyavacca, AMg. veyāvacca; Sanskrit Lex. °pṛtya, Jain Sanskrit °vṛtya; Buddh. and Jain word; from Sanskrit vyāpṛta plus ya, a for ṛ and v for p MIndic), nt., work (of duty or service to a superior), especially to a Buddha or (often) to monks: vai- yāvṛtya dharmenānumodanā ca (so mss., to be kept, but meter suggests pronunciation vyāvṛtya!) mahājano prīti (so mss.) karoti puṇyaṃ Mahāvastu i.298.19 (verse), service (to a Bud- dha); dharma-°vṛtyaṃ Divyāvadāna 54.16 (saṃghasya); 347.27; °vṛtyaṃ Avadāna-śataka i.260.6; ii.96.7, 11 (here by a monk to other monks); °pṛtyaṃ Avadāna-śataka ii.13.5; °vṛtya-karmaṇi Avadāna-śataka ii.9.3; °pṛtyakarmaṇi Bodhisattvabhūmi 16.7; sattvānām °pṛtya-kriyā (by [Page511-b+ 71] Bodhisattvas) 29.25; °pṛtya (ms.) Śikṣāsamuccaya 50.15 f.; 55.6 ff.; °patya [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 494.8, 10; gṛhikarmānta-°pṛtya Śikṣāsamuccaya 114.3 ff., work at duties of the sort that householders do (i.e. not religious); °ya-kara (so also in Pali and AMg.), one who does (such) work, Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 57.12 (verse; °vṛtya-k° for a Buddha); Divyāvadāna 347.2, 24 (prose; id.); a servant in a monastery; Mahāvyutpatti 8736 (°vṛtya°); Divyāvadāna 54.19; Śikṣāsamuccaya 55.8 (°pṛtya°); Bodhisattvabhūmi 166.24 (id.); [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 494.9, 11, etc. (°patya°); wrongly written vaiyāvṛtta-k° Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.136.9.
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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