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

Vyomaka (व्योमक).—(1) nt., some kind of ornament: °kam Mahāvyutpatti 6052, in a list of ornaments; Tibetan mkhaḥ rten, see below; (2) m. and nt., = Tibetan mkhaḥ rten, rendered by [Tibetan-English Dictionary] the firmament; sky supporting; a sort of ornament. The meaning ornament has not been found except in Mahāvyutpatti 6052. Elsewhere the word clearly means a tall palatial building, often supernaturally or magically created; lit., I suppose, reaching to the sky (Sanskrit vyoman; Tibetan would mean sky-support), and usually in the [compound] ratna-vy°, one made of jewels; (nagarasya śṛṅgāṭake) saptaratnavyoma- kopary asaṃkhyeyaratnamaye…bhadrāsane Gaṇḍavyūha 143.8; (ekaikasyāṃ rathyāyām ubhayor antayor viṃśati-) vyo- maka-koṭīḥ sarvopakaraṇaparipūrṇaiḥ sthāpitā(ḥ) Gaṇḍavyūha 164.21 (for the benefit of all creatures); (mārgaḥ…) ubhayato nānāratnavyomakapaṅktiviracitavyūhaḥ ([bahuvrīhi]), tatra keṣucid ratnavyomakeṣu vividharatnaparipūrṇ- āni ratnabhājanāni sthāpitāny abhūvan yācanaka- saṃghapratipādanakārthaṃ, keṣucid vyomakeṣu etc. Gaṇḍavyūha 403.15 ff., down to 404.7, in numerous repetitions always keṣucid vyomakeṣu (they all contained largesse for beg- gars); ratnavyomakāni saṃsthitāny abhūvan, sarveṣu ca ratnavyomaka-mūrdhneṣu koṭīśataṃ devaputrāṇāṃ… avasthitam abhūt Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 405.4—5; ratnavyomakāni 410.12; sarvasya ca tālavṛkṣasya purato ratnavyomakaḥ saṃsthito 'bhūt, sarvasmiṃś ca ratnavyomake aśītyapsaraḥsahasrāṇi …sthitāny abhūvan Lalitavistara 274.5—6; ratnavyomakāṃs tasmin…'bhinirmimīte sma, tebhyaś ca ratnavyomake- bhya iyaṃ gāthā niścacāra Lalitavistara 293.13—14; teṣu kūṭāgāreṣu ratnavyomakeṣu (not epithet of kūṭā° as stated [Boehtlingk and Roth] 6.1486; Tibetan makes the two coordinate nouns, connected by daṅ) …bodhisattvavigrahān abhinirmimīte sma 294.13.

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

Vyomaka (व्योमक):—[from vyoman] (gender doubtful) a kind of ornament, [Buddhist literature]

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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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Starts with: Vyomakapardi, Vyomakara.

Ends with: Ratnavyomaka.

Full-text: Ratnavyomaka.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Part 6 - Buddha’s preferences for Gṛdhrakūṭaparvata < [Chapter V - Rājagṛha]

Part 14 - The omniscient Buddha < [Chapter IV - Explanation of the Word Bhagavat]

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