The Sanskrit term Viśvaṃtara can be transliterated into English as Visvamtara or Vishvamtara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Viśvaṃtara (विश्वंतर).—m., (1) epithet of Buddha: Mahāvyutpatti 32; (2) (= Pali Vessantara), name of a prince, previous incarna- tion of the Buddha: Jātakamālā 52.9 ff.

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

1) Viśvaṃtara (विश्वंतर):—[=viśva-ṃ-tara] [from viśva] mfn. all-subduing (Buddha), [Buddhist literature]

2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a king, [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] of a former state of existence of the Buddha, [Jātakamālā]

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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: Vishvam, Tara.

Full-text: Vaishvamtari, Vishvantara, Krishnajina, Madri, Sudamshtra, Sanjaya.

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