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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVikalpayati (विकल्पयति).—(1) (compare vikalpa 1 and other adjoining items), distinguishes falsely: (na ca dharmādharmayoḥ prahāṇena) caranti, vikalpayanti puṣṇanti, na praśamaṃ pratilabhante Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 21.2; °yiṣyanti Mahāvastu i.224.4 = ii.27.4, see § 42.7; (2) (= Pali vikappeti; compare vikalpa 2), hands over, assigns, presents, gives, regularly a garment to a religious person (so also Pali, cīvaraṃ): (sarvapariṣkārāḥ sarvadeyadharmā…nisṛṣṭā bhavanti) vikalpitāḥ, tad- yathā nāma bhikṣur ācāryāya vā upādhyāya vā svacīvaraṃ vikalpayet, sa evaṃ vikalpa-hetoḥ…Bodhisattvabhūmi 128.15—16.
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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Ends with: Nirvikalpayati, Prativikalpayati, Pravikalpayati.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 10.155 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 3 - Exertion and the other virtues < [Chapter XXVII - The Virtue of Exertion]
II. The movements of mind are cognized by an infallible liberation < [Part 2 - Distinguishing the movements of mind of all beings]
The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux (by Satkari Mookerjee)
Chapter XV - The Problem of After-Life or Immortality of Consciousness-continuum < [Part I - Metaphysics]