ཉེ་དབང་། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

ཉེ་དབང་།
ཉེ་དབང་པོ།
ཉེ་བའི་དབང་པོ།

nye dbang
nye dbang po
nye ba’i dbang po

upendra

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Upendra

The Chapter on Medicines

Upendra

ཉེ་དབང་པོ།

nye dbang po

upendra

Definition in this text:

The younger brother of Indra.

4 passages contain this term

The Hundred Deeds

Upendra

ཉེ་དབང་།

nye dbang

upendra

Definition in this text:

Considered the “younger brother” of Indra, the name Upendra appears as an epithet of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa in Sanskrit epic and purāṇic literature.

46 passages contain this term

Emergence from Sampuṭa

Upendra

ཉེ་དབང་།

nye dbang

upendra

Definition in this text:

A Hindu deity.

2 passages contain this term

The Queen of Incantations: The Great Peahen

Upendra

ཉེ་བའི་དབང་པོ།

nye ba’i dbang po

upendra

1 passage contains this term

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RP

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