The Sanskrit term Viśeṣayati can be transliterated into English as Visesayati or Visheshayati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Viśeṣayati (विशेषयति).—(see [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. śiṣ-plus vi-, caus.; not quite the same mgs.), tests, examines (for proficiency): in Lalitavistara 145.21 (prose) according to Tibetan vies, contends, (śākyakumārā… bodhisattvena) sārdhaṃ lipiṃ viśeṣayanti sma, Tibetan yi ge ḥgran to, vied, contended (about) writing; but perhaps better, tested (skill in) writing, as in the next two; viśiṣya- tāṃ tāvat kumāro lipijñāne, saṃkhyājñāne kumāro viśe- ṣayitavyo jijñāsyaś ca Lalitavistara 146.8—9, let it be granted that the prince is superior in knowledge of writing; let him be tested for proficiency and examined in numbers (Tibetan for the two gdves. khyad par ci yod ḥgran par bya-ḥo); yuddhena tāvat kumāro viśeṣayitavyo jijñāsyaś ca 152.8 (Tibetan for gdves. khyad par ci yod pa ḥaṅ sad par bya-ḥo; sad pa = try, test).

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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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