ཕལ་སྐད། | Glossary of Terms

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ཕལ་སྐད།

phal skad

prākṛta

Term

Publications: 1

Translated as:

Prakrit

The Transcendent Perfection of Wisdom in Ten Thousand Lines

Translation by Gyurme Dorje

Prakrit

ཕལ་སྐད།

phal skad

prākṛta

Definition in this text:

A collective name for the colloquial dialects of the Middle Indo-Aryan languages.

1 passage contains this term

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