84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཆུ་ཀླུང་སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གང་གཱ།

  • ཆུ་ཀླུང་སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།
  • སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།
  • chu klung skal ldan shing rta
  • skal ldan shing rta
  • gang gA
  • bhāgīrathī
  • bhāgīrāthī
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  • Bhāgīrathī
  • ཆུ་ཀླུང་སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།
  • chu klung skal ldan shing rta
  • bhāgīrathī
Definition in this text:

Another name for the river Gaṇgā, mentioned by the teacher Sañjayin in encouraging Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana to seek out the Buddha who was born on its banks.

  • Bhāgīrathī
  • སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།
  • skal ldan shing rta
  • bhāgīrathī
Definition in this text:

“Fortunate Chariot,” an epithet of the Ganges.

  • Bhāgīrāthī
  • གང་གཱ།
  • gang gA
  • bhāgīrāthī
Definition in this text:

One of the three branches of the river Gaṅgā in its early course.