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ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ། | Glossary of Terms
ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ།
kAr ShA pa Na
kārṣāpaṇa
- Term
- Kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ།
- kAr ShA pa Na
- kārṣāpaṇa
A coin.
- Karṣāpaṇa
- ཞོའི་བརྒྱད།
- zho’i brgyad
- karṣāpaṇa
A coin of a particular weight or measure.
- Kārṣāpaṇa
- ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ།
- 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
- ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ།
- 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
- ཀཱར་ཥཱ་པ་ཎ།
- 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
- ཀཱརྵཱ་པ་ཎ།
- 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.