84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཆུ་སྟོད། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཆུ་སྟོད།

  • chu stod
  • pūrvāṣāḍhā
  • (not in the skt. source of the mmk)
  • pūrvāṣādhā
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  • Person
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  • Pūrvāṣāḍhā
  • ཆུ་སྟོད།
  • chu stod
  • pūrvāṣāḍhā
Definition in this text:

The name of a lunar asterism. Its chief star is known as Delta Sagittarii in the occidental tradition.

  • Pūrvāṣāḍhā
  • ཆུ་སྟོད།
  • chu stod
  • (not in the skt. source of the mmk)
Definition in this text:

The name of a nakṣatra. One of the two Āṣāḍhās.

  • Pūrvāṣāḍhā
  • ཆུ་སྟོད།
  • chu stod
  • pūrvāṣāḍhā
Definition in this text:

A lunar mansion in the west.

  • Pūrvāṣādhā
  • ཆུ་སྟོད།
  • chu stod
  • pūrvāṣādhā
Definition in this text:

The twentieth of the twenty-seven constellations, or nakṣatras, in Vedic astrology. Here it corresponds to the sixth month of the Tibetan calendar, when the moon is full in the constellation.