ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན། | Glossary of Terms

ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན།

klu ’dab bzangs kyi gdon

nāgasuparṇīgraha

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fine-winged nāga graha

Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm

fine-winged nāga graha

ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན།

klu ’dab bzangs kyi gdon

nāgasuparṇīgraha

Definition in this text:

The Sanskrit term suparṇī in nāgasuparṇīgraha, translated by the Tibetan term ’dab bzang, literally means “fine-winged” or “beautiful-leaved.” While this can be an epithet for the mythical garuḍa bird, here it seems to simply describe a general characteristic of the nāga.

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RP

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RS

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