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མེར་མེར་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
མེར་མེར་པོ།
mer mer po
kalala
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- First-week embryo
- མར་མེར།
- mar mer
- kalala
The Gaṇḍavyūha uses the same terminology as the Jain text Tandulaveyāliyua and differs from other sūtras. In the Nandagarbhāvakrantinirdeśasūtra, kalala is translated as mer mer po. In other texts the first stage is translated as nur nur po.
Translation by Robert Kritzer
- Kalala
- མེར་མེར་པོ།
- mer mer po
- kalala
The embryo in the first week of gestation.