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ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ | Glossary of Terms
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ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
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“One who belongs to the Kuśika lineage.” An epithet of the god Śakra, also known as Indra, the king of the gods in the Trāyastriṃśa heaven. In the Ṛgveda, Indra is addressed by the epithet Kauśika, with the implication that he is associated with the descendants of the Kuśika lineage (gotra) as their aiding deity. In later epic and Purāṇic texts, we find the story that Indra took birth as Gādhi Kauśika, the son of Kuśika and one of the Vedic poet-seers, after the Puru king Kuśika had performed austerities for one thousand years to obtain a son equal to Indra who could not be killed by others. In the Pāli Kusajātaka (Jāt V 141–45), the Buddha, in one of his former bodhisattva lives as a Trāyastriṃśa god, takes birth as the future king Kusa upon the request of Indra, who wishes to help the childless king of the Mallas, Okkaka, and his chief queen Sīlavatī. This story is also referred to by Nāgasena in the Milindapañha.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
- 憍尸迦
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Indra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epiphet of the god Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of the god Śakra .
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Alternative name of Śakra, lord of the gods.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Another name of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Indra/Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Another name for Indra. Kauśika, Śakra, and Indra all refer to the same god, centrally prominent in the Vedas, who in Buddhist cosmogony is regarded as the king of gods in the realm of desire.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Indra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Another name for Indra. Kauśika, Śakra, and Indra all refer to the same god, of central importance in the Vedas, who in Buddhist cosmology is regarded as the king of gods in the realm of desire.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
An epithet of Śakra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Another name of Śakra; see definition for “Śakra.”
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika
Epithet of Indra.
- Kauśika
- ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ
- kau shi ka
- kauśika