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ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས། | Glossary of Terms
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ཤེད་ཅན།
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ།
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- shed las skyes pa
- shed can
- manuja
- Term
Manu being the archetypal human, the progenitor of humankind, in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, and other Indian texts, “born of Manu” is a synonym of “human being” or humanity in general. Also rendered “son of Manu.”
- one born of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
- one born of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
- born of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
Manu being the archetypal human, the progenitor of mankind, in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, and other Indian texts, “born of Manu” is a synonym of “human being” or mankind in general. Also rendered “son of Manu.”
- descendant of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
Literally “born from Manu,” considered the first ancestor of all humans.
- human being
- ཤེད་ཅན།
- shed can
- manuja
- humankind
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ།
- shed las skyes pa
- manuja