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དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ། | Glossary of Terms
དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi pa
caturaṅgabalakāya
- Term
The ancient Indian army was composed of four branches (caturaṅga)—infantry, cavalry, chariots, and elephants.
- Four divisions of the army
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi
- caturaṅgabala
The ancient Indian army was composed of four branches (caturaṅga)—infantry, cavalry, chariots, and elephants.
- Four divisions of the army
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi
- caturaṅga balakāya
These are elephants, horse cavalry, chariots, and infantry (Tatelman 259).
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- Four divisions of the army
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི།
- དཔུང་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
- དཔུང་གི་ཡན་ལག་བཞི།
- ཡན་ལག་བཞིའི་དཔུང་།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi
- dpung yan lag bzhi pa
- dpung gi yan lag bzhi
- yan lag bzhi’i dpung
- caturaṅga
The fourfold division of an army into infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots.
- Armed forces of the four branches
- ཡན་ལག་བཞི།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi
- caturaṅgabala
The ancient Indian army was composed of four branches (caturaṅga)—infantry, cavalry, chariots, and elephants.
- Army in its four divisions
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi pa
- caturaṅgabala
The ancient Indian army was composed of four branches—infantry, cavalry, chariots, and elephants.
- Four branches of the armed forces
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi pa
- caturaṅgabalakāya
The fourfold division of an army into infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots.
- Four kinds of troops
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi pa
- caturaṅgabalakāya
The fourfold division of an army into infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots.
- Mass of four-unit forces
- དཔུང་གི་ཚོགས་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།
- dpung gi tshogs yan lag bzhi pa
- caturaṅgaṃ balakāyam