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མཁྱིད་གང་།
མཐོ་གང་།

mtho gang
mkhyid gang

vitasti

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

handspan

The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print

handspan

མཁྱིད་གང་།

mkhyid gang

vitasti

Definition in this text:

A traditional unit of length, measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.

1 passage contains this term

vitasti

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

vitasti

མཐོ་གང་།

mtho gang

vitasti

Definition in this text:

A measure of length that equals the distance from the tip of the extended thumb to the tip of the little finger.

3 passages contain this term

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AS

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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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