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མ་ན་བ། | Glossary of Terms
མ་ན་བ།
ma na ba
māṇava
- Term
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Translation by Bruno Galasek-Hul
- Brahmin youth
- མ་ན་བ།
- ma na ba
- māṇava
See “young brahmin.”
Translation by Bruno Galasek-Hul
- Young brahmin
- མ་ན་བ།
- ma na ba
- māṇava
This renders the vocative Tibetan ma na ba, which is an approximate phonetic rendition of Sanskrit māṇava “lad, boy, youth; young brahmin” (cf. Apte, s.v. māṇava). When not in the vocative in direct speech, we have translated it as “brahmin youth.”