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སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
sbrul gyi snying po
uragasāra
- Term
- Uragasāra
- སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāra
A variety of sandalwood. The name means “snake essence” because snakes were said to live in the forests of those trees because they were attracted to their scent.
- Uragasāra
- སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāra
- Uragasāra
- སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāra
One kind of Indian sandalwood (Santalum album) said to be “blue” on the inside. The name “essence of snakes” is said to come from snakes being particularly attracted to those trees.
- Uragasāra
- སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāra
A variety of sandalwood. The name means “snake essence” because snakes were said to live in the forests of those trees because they were attracted to their scent.
- Uragasāra
- ཨུ་ར་ག་ས་ལ།
- u ra ga sa ra
- uragasāra
A kind of sandalwood.
- Snake’s delight sandalwood
- ཙནྡན་སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- tsan+dana sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāracandana
- sarpeṣṭacandana
A name for sandalwood, or perhaps a particular species of sandalwood, that is believed to be “desired/beloved” (Skt. iṣṭa) by snakes (Skt. sarpa).
- Uraga sandalwood
- ཙན་དན་སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- tsan dan sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāracandana
- Uragasāra sandalwood
- ཙན་དན་སྦྲུལ་གྱི་སྙིང་པོ།
- tsan dan sbrul gyi snying po
- uragasāracandana