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བྲི་ཛི་ན། | Glossary of Terms
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བྲི་ཛི་ན།
- བྲྀ་ཛི།
- སྤོང་བྱེད།
- bri dzi na
- spong byed
- br-i dzi
- vṛji
- vaji
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- Place
- Vṛji
- སྤོང་བྱེད།
- spong byed
- vṛji
A country.
- Vṛji
- བྲི་ཛི་ན།
- bri dzi na
- vṛji
- vaji
The land and people of Vṛji or Vaji (Pāli Vajji), a country situated on the northeastern Gangetic plain, and one of the sixteen mahājanapada of ancient India. It was run by a confederacy of eight or nine clans, including the Vṛji, Licchavi, and Videha, who sent representatives to an administrative council led by an elected ruler. Its capital was Vaiśālī. See Edgerton, s.v. Vṛji and Vaji.
- Vṛji
- སྤོང་བྱེད།
- spong byed
- vṛji
One of the sixteen principal mahājanapadas (great countries) of ancient India, and a confederacy of eight or nine clans. It extended from the north bank of the Ganges opposite Pāṭaliputra up to the Madhesh regions of present southern Nepal.
- Vṛji
- སྤོང་བྱེད།
- spong byed
- vṛji
One of the sixteen principal mahājanapadas (great countries) of ancient India, and a confederacy of eight or nine clans. It extended from the north bank of the Ganges opposite Pāṭaliputra up to the Madhesh regions of present southern Nepal.
- Vṛji
- བྲྀ་ཛི།
- br-i dzi
- vṛji
One of the sixteen great kingdoms (mahājanapada) of ancient India. The land and people of Vṛji or Vaji (Pali Vajji), a country situated on the northeastern Gangetic plain.
- Vṛji
- སྤོང་བྱེད།
- spong byed
- vṛji
The name of the country in which Māyā and Mahāmāya are said to have been born in “The Story of Keśinī” from The Hundred Deeds.