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ཀ་ཤི། | Glossary of Terms
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ཀ་ཤི་ཀ
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ག་ཤ།
- གསལ་ལྡན།
- ཡུལ་ཀ་ཤི་པ།
- ka shi
- ka shi ka
- ga sha
- yul ka shi pa
- gsal ldan
- kāśi
- kāśī
- Note: this data is still being sorted
- Place
- Kāśī
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśī
The old name for Vārāṇasī.
- Kāśi
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśi
A country or a city named the same.
- Kāśī
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśī
Alternative name for the Indian city of Vārāṇasī.
- Kāśi
- གསལ་ལྡན།
- ཀ་ཤི།
- gsal ldan
- ka shi
- kāśi
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
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
Old name of Benares. Kāśīka is the name of the special muslin produced in the city.
- Kāśī
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśī
Another name for Vārāṇasī or Benares, a city known for its fine garments and embroidery.
- Kāśī
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśī
An ancient kingdom neighboring Kośala to the south. Its capital was present-day Benares (Vārāṇasī).
- Kāśi
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśi
Another name for Vārāṇasī.
- Kāśī
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ཀ་ཤི་ཀ
- ka shi
- ka shi
- ka shi ka
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
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśī
One of the sixteen great kingdoms of ancient India.
- Kāśi
- ཀ་ཤི།
- ka shi
- kāśi
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
See “Vārāṇasī.”
- Benares
- གསལ་ལྡན།
- gsal ldan
- kāśi
Modern Vārāṇasi.