84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཤིང་རྟ་བཅུ་པའི་བུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤིང་རྟ་བཅུ་པའི་བུ།

  • shing rta bcu pa’i bu
  • daśarathaputra
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  • Daśarathaputra
  • ཤིང་རྟ་བཅུ་པའི་བུ།
  • shing rta bcu pa’i bu
  • daśarathaputra
Definition in this text:

“The son of Daśaratha” is actually Rāma. At the point in the Kāraṇḍavyūha where Nārāyaṇa, really Viṣṇu, rescues the kṣatriyas, he is inexplicably called by this name, which may reference a Rāma story. Rāma came to be viewed as one of the ten incarnations of Nārāyaṇa.