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ཆུ་སྲིན། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆུ་སྲིན་མ་ཀ་ར།
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- chu srin
- chu srin ma ka ra
- makara
- Term
- makara
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- chu srin
- makara
An aquatic monster.
- makara
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- chu srin
- makara
A fabled sea monster, the front part of which is a mammal. It is said to be the largest animal in the world, with the strongest bite. Its head is said to be a combination of the features of an elephant, a crocodile, and a boar. The name is also applied to the dugong, the crocodile (in particular the Mugger crocodile, whose name is even derived from makara), and the dolphin, particularly the Ganges dolphin, because the Ganges goddess is said to ride on a makara.
- makara
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- chu srin
- makara
A fabled sea monster, the front part of which is a mammal. It is said to be the largest animal in the world, with the strongest bite. Its head is said to be a combination of the features of an elephant, a crocodile, and a boar. The name is also applied to the dugong, the crocodile (in particular the Mugger crocodile, whose name is even derived from makara), and the dolphin, particularly the Ganges dolphin, because the Ganges goddess is said to ride on a makara.
- makara
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- ཆུ་སྲིན་མ་ཀ་ར།
- chu srin
- chu srin ma ka ra
- makara
A legendary sea monster often described as an amalgamation of several terrestrial and/or aquatic animals such as an elephant, a crocodile, and a boar, although the term is sometimes associated with the dugong, the crocodile, or the dolphin. Here its image is the twelfth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
- makara
- ཆུ་སྲིན།
- chu srin
- makara
A mythical sea monster.