ཀ་ཙ་ལིན་དི་ཀ | Glossary of Terms
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ཀ་ཙ་ལི་དི་ཀ
- ཀ་ཙ་ལིན་དི་ཀ
- ཀ་ཙ་ལིན་དི།
- ka tsa lin di ka
- ka tsa li di ka
- ka tsa lin di
- kācalindika
- kācalindi
- kācilindika
- Term
A frequent simile for softness, thought to refer either (1) to the down of the kācilindika or kācalindika bird (see Lamotte 1975, p. 261, n. 321), or (2) to a tropical tree bearing silken pods, similar to kapok, from which garments were made, and identified (Monier-Williams p. 266) with Abrus precatorius.
- kācalindika
- ཀ་ཙ་ལིན་དི་ཀ
- ka tsa lin di ka
- kācalindika
A frequent simile for softness, thought to refer either (1) to the down of the kācilindika or kācalindika bird (see Lamotte, Etienne, La Concentration de la Marche Héroïque, Bruxelles: Peeters 1975, p. 261, n321), or (2) to a tropical tree bearing silken pods, similar to kapok, from which garments were made, and identified (Monier Williams p. 266) with Abrus precatorius.
- kācalindika
- ཀ་ཙ་ལི་དི་ཀ
- ka tsa li di ka
- kācalindika
- kācalindi
- kācilindika
- ཀ་ཙ་ལིན་དི་ཀ
- ka tsa lin di ka
- kācilindika
- kācalindika
An epithet for softness, usually applied to cloth, and probably in reference, directly or metaphorically, to the down of the kācilindika bird. See Lamotte, Etienne. La Concentration de la Marche Héroïque. Bruxelles: Peeters (1975), p. 261, n. 321. The Mahāvyutpatti includes the term using the variant spelling kācalindika.