84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཨང་ག | Glossary of Terms

  • ཨང་ག

  • ཨངྒ།
  • ang ga
  • ang+ga
  • aṅga
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  • Place
Publications: 6
Translation by Robert Miller
  • Aṅga
  • ཨང་ག
  • ang ga
  • aṅga
Definition in this text:

A kingdom on the southern bank of the Ganges (in modern day Bihar and Bengal) whose influence waned during the life of Śākyamūni Buddha at the hands of the kings of Magadha. Its capital was at Campā.

Translation by Fumi Yao
  • Aṅga
  • ཨང་ག
  • ang ga
  • aṅga
Definition in this text:

A country.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · James Gentry
  • Aṅga
  • ཨང་ག
  • ang ga
  • aṅga
Definition in this text:

A town in the region of Magadha.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · Timothy Hinkle · Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Aṅga
  • ཨང་ག
  • ang ga
  • aṅga RP
Definition in this text:

A land in the east of Jambudvīpa.

Translation by Elizabeth Angowski
  • Aṅga
  • ཨང་ག
  • ang ga
  • aṅga
Definition in this text:

One of the sixteen great kingdoms of ancient India.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Aṅga
  • ཨངྒ།
  • ang+ga
  • aṅga
Definition in this text:

An ancient country whose territory spanned parts of what is today eastern Bihar and West Bengal.