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Sarvastivada

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Sanskrit सर्वास्तिवाद

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Sanskrit · borrowed fromसर्वास्तिवाद
English todaySarvastivada

Borrowed from Sanskrit सर्वास्तिवाद (sarvāstivāda), from सर्व (sarva) + अस्ति (asti) + -वाद (-vāda).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.