84000 Glossary of Terms

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ད་ཤ་གྲཱི་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ད་ཤ་གྲཱི་བ།

  • མགྲིན་བཅུ།
  • da sha grI ba
  • mgrin bcu
  • daśagrīva
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  • Daśagrīva
  • མགྲིན་བཅུ།
  • mgrin bcu
  • daśagrīva
Definition in this text:

Name of a nāga king; also a name for Rāvaṇa, the primary adversary of Rāma in the Rāmāyaṇa.

  • Daśagrīva
  • ད་ཤ་གྲཱི་བ།
  • da sha grI ba
  • daśagrīva
Definition in this text:

The king of Laṅkāpuri. He is also known as the king Rāvaṇa in the Rāmāyaṇa. To appease the devas and to save his own life, he is said to have offered his sister in marriage to Mahādeva. From this union the Dharma protector Rematī was born.