Yamalokika: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryYamalokika (यमलोकिक).—adj., subst. (compare yāma° and AMg. jamaloiya), belonging to or inhabitant of Yama's world: °kānāṃ sattvānāṃ…-duḥkhaṃ vyupaśāntam abhūt Lalitavistara 86.13; sarva-niraya-tiryagyoni-yamalokikāḥ sarve deva- manuṣyāś ca Lalitavistara 289.7.
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Yāmalokika (यामलोकिक).—(only Gaṇḍavyūha 75.23) or °laukika, adj. (compare yama°; to Sanskrit yamaloka plus -ika), of Yama's world: with sattva, pl., creatures of…, Mahāvastu ii.301.7; Gaṇḍavyūha 75.23; with pretāḥ Śikṣāsamuccaya 130.17; after nārakaḥ tairyagyonikaḥ Bodhisattvabhūmi 295.23; °kāni duḥkhāni Gaṇḍavyūha 376.5.
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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