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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAvavadati (अववदति) or Ovadati.—(= Pali ovadati), admonishes, instructs; regularly followed by parallel anuśās(a)ti, as also in Pali: samyag avavadati samyag anuśāsti Divyāvadāna 299.10; avavadāmy anuśāsmi, yathā mayā samyag avavaditāḥ samyag avaśiṣṭā(ḥ) Lalitavistara 409.11; taṃ bhagavāṃ ovadatu anuśāsatu Mahāvastu i.321.17; ovadatu me bhavāṃ… anuśāsatu me Mahāvastu iii.206.2—3; ovadeyaṃ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 351.6; ppp. avavadita Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 70.13; 101.4; gdve. avavaditavya Divyāvadāna 492.29; kevarūpeṇa ovādena ovadanti Mahāvastu i.104.9.
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Avavādati (अववादति) or Avavādayati or Ovādati or Ovādayati.—; noted only in iminā ovādena ovādito Mahāvastu iii.53.8 and…ovāditvā 10; probably denom. to ovāda (ava°).
Avavādati can also be spelled as Avavadati (अववदति).
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: Ovadati, Avavaditar, Ovadayati, Avavadayati, Avavadaka, Tatprathamatas, Ovada, Avavada.
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