Sukhavant: 1 definition

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Sukhavant (सुखवन्त्):—(von sukha) adj. voller Freuden, - Genüsse; f. vatī Name der von Buddha Amitābha bewohnten Welt [BURNOUF,] [?Intr. 100. fg. 222. 594. Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 251. 267. WASSILYEW 156. 178. 203. TĀRAN. 93. 269. 313. Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s, Lebensb. 310 (80).] vyūha m. Titel eines Sūtra [BURNOUF,] [Intr. 99.] — Vgl. sukhāvatī .

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Sukhāvant (सुखावन्त्):—

1) adj. = sukhavant. varti Bez. einer best. Pille [CAKRADATTA 417.] —

2) f. vatī a) = sukhavatī; sukhāvatīśvara m. Nomen proprium eines Buddha (wohl Amitābha’s) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 15.] vyūha = sukhavatīvyūha [Oxforder Handschriften 403,a, No. 3.] — b) Nomen proprium einer Gattin des Sūryaprabha [Kathāsaritsāgara 46, 24.]

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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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