གང་ག་མ། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

གང་ག་མ།
གང་གཱ།
གངྒཱ།

gang ga ma
gang+gA
gang gA

gaṅgā

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Publications: 5

Appears in our translations as:

Gaṅgā

Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm

Gaṅgā

གངྒཱ།

gang+gA

gaṅgā

1 passage contains this term

The Queen of Incantations: The Great Peahen

Gaṅgā

གང་གཱ།

gang gA

gaṅgā

Definition in this text:

A river queen.

1 passage contains this term

The Sovereign Ritual of Amoghapāśa

Gaṅgā

གང་གཱ།

gang gA

gaṅgā

Definition in this text:

The river Gaṅgā (personified).

3 passages contain this term

The Hundred and Eight Names of the Goddess Tārā

Gaṅgā

གང་ག་མ།

gang ga ma

gaṅgā

Definition in this text:

The Brahmanical goddess identified with the Ganges River.

1 passage contains this term

The Threefold Invocation Ritual

Gaṅgā

གང་གཱ།

gang gA

gaṅgā

Definition in this text:

A river goddess.

1 passage contains this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

Approximate attestation

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

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SU

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