Sanskrit Online Dictionary

From: Nyanatusita
Message: 4125
Date: 2014-12-17

Dear members,

There is an Sanskrit Dictionary online resource at http://sanskritdictionary.com. It combines several dictionaries such as Monier Williams, Apte, MacDonell, Vedabase, etc.

I searched the word s ū tra and it gives many results:  http://sanskritdictionary.com/?q=s%C5%ABtra&lang=sans&iencoding=iast&action=Search

There apparently is no corresponding word to suttanta in Sanskrit, which is a pity because it could help to clarify its meaning.

It is also not found in BHS . The term sautrāntika, which is the designation of one of the early Buddhist school, who accepted only the s
ūtras and rejected the Abhidharma is a compound consisting of sautra + antika , ''close to / belonging to the sūtras''.
Perhaps the Pali term suttanta is to be taken in the same way: i.e. sutta + anta in the sense of  ''belonging to / included in the suttas'' as a designation for the discourses of the Buddha included in the class of literature called sutta or being a inner part (anta) of the Sutta which consists of all suttantas?

Best wishes,
                     Bh Nyanatusita

 

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