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དཱུར་བ། | Glossary of Terms
དཱུར་བ།
dUr ba
dūrvā
- Term
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- Doob grass
- དཱུར་བ།
- dUr ba
- dūrvā
- dūrva
Cynodon dactylon.
- Dūrvā grass
- རྩྭ་དུར་བ།
- rtswa dur ba
- dūrvā
Cynodon dactylon (syn. Panicum dactylon), a kind of grass that is used in a variety of Buddhist ceremonies. It is also one of the eight auspicious substances (bkra shis rdzas brgyad). Here it is sixty-sixth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
- Panic grass
- དཱུར་བ།
- dUr ba
- dūrvā
Panicum dactylon.