ཁྱིམ་བདག་གི་རིགས། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

ཁྱིམ་བདག་གི་རིགས།

khyim bdag gi rigs

gṛhapatikula
gṛhapativarṇa

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

business family

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

business family

ཁྱིམ་བདག་གི་རིགས།

khyim bdag gi rigs

gṛhapatikula

Definition in this text:

A subdivision of the vaiśya (mercantile) class of traditional Indian society.

23 passages contain this term

householder

The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī with Its Ritual Manual (1)

householder

ཁྱིམ་བདག་གི་རིགས།

khyim bdag gi rigs

gṛhapativarṇa

Definition in this text:

Not one of the normal four “castes” of Indian society, but presumably here a term referring to nonmonastics.

3 passages contain this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

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SU

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