The Sanskrit term Vāśīcandanakalpa can be transliterated into English as Vasicandanakalpa or Vashicandanakalpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Vashichandanakalpa.

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

Vāśīcandanakalpa (वाशीचन्दनकल्प).—[, see vāsī°, the only spelling recorded in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] mss.]

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Vāsīcandanakalpa (वासीचन्दनकल्प).—(vāsī-candana-kalpa), adj. (= AMg. vāsī-candaṇa-kappa, see below), a stock epithet of an arhat; in effect, indifferent; only in a cliché list of such epithets, always following (and in every case but one immediately) sama- loṣṭakāñcana and ākāśapāṇitalasamacitta, with other similar terms: Divyāvadāna 97.26; 180.26 (here v.l. vālī°); 240.25; 282.2; 551.19; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.131.3; Avadāna-śataka i.96.7 (ms.); 104.7; 207.12, etc.; according to [Ardha-Māgadhī Dictionary], indifferent alike to being cut with a hatchet (Sanskrit vāśī, also written vāsī) or anointed with sandalwood paste; this is clearly the Jain traditional inter- pretation, misunderstood by Jacobi, [Sacred Books of the East] 45, p. 99, note 1; in translation(s) of Kalpa Sūtra 119 Jacobi renders vāsī by [Page479-b+ 71] ordure, and Charpentier on Uttarādh. 19.92 also thinks it means something ill-smelling, in contrast with sandal; they both agree with the Jain tradition in understanding kalpa as indifferent to (pairs of opposites, like Sanskrit sama); perhaps this is right, but if so I know of no parallel for it; ordinary usage, both Sanskrit and MIndic, would make it mean like, resembling…; in this case, possibly, resembling a knife or sandalwood in ‘coldness’, dispassionate nature?. So in effect Feer, Avadāna-śataka translation(s) p. 14, il était devenu froid comme le sandal; but Feer omits vāsī!

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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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Partial matches: Kalpa.

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