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水

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: water

Senses:

  • River(s), seas or oceans. One of the four great elements 四大. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • (Skt. ap, ambu, udaka, jala, vāri; ap-skandha, ab-dhātu, ambhas, āpa, āpas, uda, udbhida, eka-vindu, ogha, augha, jaḍa, jala-ja, toya, daka, dravatā, nadī, nadya, payas, pānīya, pravāha, maṇḍa, mahaugha, *mūtra, vāri-dhārā, śrotas, śleṣman, salila, sneha, *srotas, hrada; Tib. chu) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa]
  • Transliterated as 波尼 and as 鬱持. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 626b, 1182a

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 803d

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0702

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2002-07-29