84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ། | Glossary of Terms

    ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ།

    ha la ha la

    halāhala

  • Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Dr Karen Liljenberg · Dr Ulrich Pagel
  • Hālāhala
  • ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ།
  • ha la ha la
  • hālāhala

Indian plant; a deadly poison.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · Timothy Hinkle · Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Halāhala
  • ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ།
  • ha la ha la
  • halāhala

A mythological poison said to have been produced by demonic forces in their fight against the gods.

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Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Halāhala
  • ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ།
  • ha la ha la
  • halāhala

A species of snake, or the poison from this snake.

Translation by Roger Espel Llima · Alex Yiannopoulos · Lowell Cook · Ryan Conlon
  • Halāhala
  • ཧ་ལ་ཧ་ལ།
  • ha la ha la
  • halāhala

A mythical poison, blue in color, created from the churning of the ocean by the devas and asuras.