84000 Glossary of Terms

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མཚོ་དལ་གྱིས་འབབ། | Glossary of Terms

  • མཚོ་དལ་གྱིས་འབབ།

  • mtsho dal gyis ’bab
  • mandākinī
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  • Place
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  • Lake Mandākinī
  • མཚོ་དལ་གྱིས་འབབ།
  • mtsho dal gyis ’bab
  • mandākinī
Definition in this text:

The Mandākinī river, which translates as “the slow-flowing” river, is the name of a specific tributary of the Ganges that flows through the Kedāranātha valley in the Himālayas, as well as a name that might be used for other rivers (Monier-Williams 788.2). The term is assumed to refer to a lake in this case (and not a river) because the Tibetan uses the term mtsho.

1 Related glossary entries:

དལ་གྱིས་འབབ།

  • mandākinī
  • mandākinī puṣkariṇī
  • Mandākinī
  • Mandākinī Lotus Pond