84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཡ་བ་ན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཡ་བ་ན།

  • ya ba na
  • yavana
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  • Yavana
  • ཡ་བ་ན།
  • ya ba na
  • yavana
Definition in this text:

Appears in The Hundred Deeds as the name of a king and a people dwelling in the “barbaric outlying region” north of Jambudvīpa. A reference to the Greeks or Greco-Bactrians.