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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Avakoṭimaka (अवकोटिमक).—adj. (= Pali okoṭ°), deformed, mis- shapen; so Tibetan according to Speyer, byad (on i.280.3 byed) ṅan po; the precise meaning in Pali is disputed; Avadāna-śataka i.280.3 and ii.152.10, in phrase durvarṇo durdarśano ava°; in Pali only in corresp. phrase dubbaṇṇa duddas(s)ika oko°. But mss. of Avadāna-śataka avahoṭimako or °ḍimako, and in ii.152.10 Speyer adopts the latter, stating that it is also written so in the Ratnāvadānamālā version of the same story. It seems that it should be the same as the Pali word, which is well attested. Yet I think the form with h is supported by Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 27.4, mss. uhātrimā, ed. em. uhoḍimā, and 33.15, text ahoḍimā, most mss. uho°; both initially in anuṣṭubh lines, where avaho° could be read as a stan- dard hypermetric type, or u- could stand for ava- (compare § 3.55, ukirati); Tibetan cited as ṅan paḥi mi, miserable man, in Suzuki, Index, which attributes to Wogihara the interpretation ūnendriya (fitting our word).

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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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Full-text: Avahotimaka, Ahodima, Uhodima, Okotimaka.

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