84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།

  • ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།
  • chu srin byis pa gsod
  • shi shu mA ra
  • śiśumāra
  • Term
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  • śiśumāra
  • ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།
  • chu srin byis pa gsod
  • śiśumāra
Definition in this text:

A type of sea creature, its name literally means “child killer.”

  • śiśumāra
  • ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།
  • shi shu mA ra
  • śiśumāra
Definition in this text:

A sea monster; lit. “the child-killer,” the Gangetic porpoise or dolphin (Monier-Williams).