The Sanskrit term Vidarśana can be transliterated into English as Vidarsana or Vidarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Vidarśana (विदर्शन).—nt., and °nā (AMg. vidarisaṇa, and with caus. meaning vidaṃsana; to Sanskrit vi-darś- plus -ana), (1) °nā, insight, vision, lit. and fig.; in this meaning app. always fem., and often associated with samatha, or śam°, replacing more usual vipaśyanā: samatha-(so, or śam°, read with v.l. and Tibetan)-vidarśanā-suviśuddha-nayanasya (bodhisattva- sya) Lalitavistara 9.6 = Tibetan zhi gnas (śamatha) daṅ lhag mthoṅ (wide vision) etc., with eye well purified in (or by) tranquillity and insight (vision); °nā-saṃbhāro dharmālokamukhaṃ 35.15; -samatha-(so with v.l., = śam°)-°nāloka-(°nā plus āloka)-prāpta(ḥ) 426.8; samatha-°nā-paripūrṇa-saṃbhā- ra(ḥ) 427.22; °nā-saṃbhāraṃ paripūrayiṣyati 441.6 (compare samatha-saṃbh° parip° 5); śukla-°nā-bhūmiḥ (one of the śrāvaka-bh°) Mahāvyutpatti 1141 (Tibetan rnam par mthoṅ ba), clear insight; °nayā prativipaśyataḥ Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 19.2; (2) °na, nt., with caus. meaning, display, making to appear (by magic): Bodhisattvabhūmi 58.23; defined 59.20 ff. as magical display, by a Buddha or Bodhisattva, of various edifying visions to an assembly; one kind of dhyāna is (pāpakāriṇām) apāya- bhūmi-vidarśanaṃ dhyānaṃ Bodhisattvabhūmi 210.7.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Vidarśanā (विदर्शना):—[=vi-darśanā] a śin See under 2. vi-√driś, p.966.

2) [=vi-darśanā] [from vi-dṛś] b f. (right) knowledge, [Lalita-vistara]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Vidarśana (विदर्शन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Vidaṃsaṇa, Vidarisaṇa.

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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: Darshana, Vi.

Ends with: Devidarshana, Shuklavidarshana.

Full-text: Vidarshin, Vidarisana, Vidamsana, Shuklavidarshana, Sambhara, Samatha.

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