84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཀ་ཤི། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཀ་ཤི་ཀ

  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ཀཱ་ཤི།
  • ག་ཤ།
  • གསལ་ལྡན།
  • ཡུལ་ཀ་ཤི་པ།
  • ka shi
  • ka shi ka
  • ga sha
  • yul ka shi pa
  • gsal ldan
  • kāśi
  • kāśī
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  • Kāśī
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

The old name for Vārāṇasī.

  • Kāśi
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

A country or a city named the same.

  • Kāśī
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

Alternative name for the Indian city of Vārāṇasī.

  • Kāśi
  • གསལ་ལྡན།
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • gsal ldan
  • ka shi
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

Ancient name for Vārāṇasī, the holy city on the banks of the Ganges in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India.

  • Kāśi
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

Ancient name for Vārāṇasī, the holy city on the banks of the Ganges in modern day Uttar Pradesh, India.

  • Kāśī
  • ཡུལ་ཀ་ཤི་པ།
  • yul ka shi pa
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

Old name of Benares. Kāśīka is the name of the special muslin produced in the city.

  • Kāśī
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

Another name for Vārāṇasī or Benares, a city known for its fine garments and embroidery.

  • Kāśī
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

An ancient kingdom neighboring Kośala to the south. Its capital was present-day Benares (Vārāṇasī).

  • Kāśi
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ka shi
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

Another name for Vārāṇasī.

  • Kāśī
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ཀཱ་ཤི།
  • ཀ་ཤི་ཀ
  • ka shi
  • kA shi
  • ka shi ka
Definition in this text:

Ancient name for Vārāṇasī, the holy city on the banks of the Gaṅgā, this name can be applied also to the surrounding country or district. It lies in modern day Uttar Pradesh, India.

  • Kāśī
  • ཀཱ་ཤི།
  • kA shi
  • kāśī
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One of the sixteen great kingdoms of ancient India.

  • Kāśi
  • ཀཱ་ཤི།
  • kA shi
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

Country whose capital was Vārāṇasī, in the Buddha’s time it had been absorbed into Kośala. Its monarch was Brahmadatta (past).

  • Kāśī
  • ག་ཤ།
  • ཀ་ཤི།
  • ga sha
  • ka shi
  • kāśī
Definition in this text:

See “Vārāṇasī.”

  • Kāśi
  • ཀ་ཤི་ཀ
  • ka shi ka
  • kāśi
Definition in this text:

Modern-day Vārāṇasī, in Uttar Pradesh.