ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད། | Glossary of Terms

ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།
ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།

chu srin byis pa gsod
shi shu mA ra

śiśumāra

Term

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śiśumāra

The Seer Vyāsa’s Questions

śiśumāra

ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།

chu srin byis pa gsod

śiśumāra

Definition in this text:

A type of sea creature, its name literally means “child killer.”

1 passage contains this term

The Hundred Deeds

śiśumāra

ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།

shi shu mA ra

śiśumāra

Definition in this text:

A sea monster; lit. “the child-killer,” the Gangetic porpoise or dolphin (Monier-Williams).

1 passage contains this term

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

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RS

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SU

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