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ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན། | Glossary of Terms
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ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- ཞོའི་བརྒྱད།
- kar sha pa na
- zho’i brgyad
- kārṣāpaṇa
- karṣāpaṇa
- Term
- kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
A coin.
- karṣāpaṇa
- ཞོའི་བརྒྱད།
- zho’i brgyad
- karṣāpaṇa
A coin of a particular weight or measure.
- kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
- 迦利沙波拏
A coin that varied in value according as to whether it was made of gold, silver, or copper.
- kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
A coin that varied in value according as to whether it was made of gold, silver, or copper. It is presumably the latter, lower-value one that is being referred to here.
- kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
A coin that varied in value according as to whether it was made of gold, silver, or copper. It is presumably the latter, lower-value one that is being referred to here.
- coin
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
A coin of variable value, sometimes worth as little as a burnt bun and other times equal to twenty gold coins.
- Gold coin
- ཀར་ཤ་པ་ན།
- kar sha pa na
- kārṣāpaṇa
Lit. “weighing a karṣa,” a coin or weight of different values (Monier-Williams 276.3); a type of ancient Indian currency.