Uposhaniya, Upoṣaṇīya: 1 definition
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Uposhaniya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Upoṣaṇīya can be transliterated into English as Uposaniya or Uposhaniya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryUpoṣaṇīya (उपोषणीय).—adj. (gdve. to next), in °ya-prabha, epithet of Amitābha: Sukhāvatīvyūha 29.14; Müller [Sacred Books of the East] 49.2, p.29, (possessed of) pleasant (light), the basis of which is obscure to me; either gdve. of next or of Sanskrit upa-vas as in [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. (5), to which one should devote oneself, or (less likely) to be honored with observances like those of the upoṣatha (°dha).
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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