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saṅghamhi

saṅgha

masc loc sg of saṅgha (noun)

1. community; fellowship; monastic order
2. group; crowd; mass; multitude; collection; entourage
3. name of a privately awakened Buddha; lit. group

Etymology. saṃ + √ghaṭ + a; from √ghaṭ 'join together'; Sanskrit saṃgha [saṃghaṭ]

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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