Literal translation of Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra What is the literal meaning of Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra. Everywhere I read it says "The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines", but that is not a literal translation as far as I can tell. What is the literal translation or etymology?

For example, Sutra means "thread", but that is no where in that perfection of wisdom phrase. I read elsewhere, too, that:


  The word Prajñāpāramitā combines the Sanskrit words prajñā "wisdom" with pāramitā "perfection".


So we have the "wisdom perfecting thread" sort of thing. But what is the other word?
Aṣṭasāhasrikā translates to "eight thousand":


aṣṭá -- eight
sahasra -- thousand


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