- bai dUr+ya/
- ID:
- T130191
- བཻ་དཱུརྱ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > bai dUr+ya/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > baidurya (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Other Dictionaries
1. Dan Martin Dictionary
The identity of this gemstone in different periods is problematic, but the Skt. word vaidūrya is probably the source, via Greek & Latin, of the English word beryl (see the entry in Hobson Jobson). Beryl is a class of stones that includes emerald and aquamarine etc. The Skt. word is a 'strengthened' derivative of the place-name Vidūra, the mountain that was the main source of lapis lazuli (called Lajwurd [lāzaward in Arabic], source of words azure and lazuli, in Yule-Cordier, Marco Polo I 162). However, the colors blue [i.e., green], white and yellow which are used in titles of works by Sde-srid Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho suggest rather the beryl (or perhaps still other stones). rin po che be dur rgya ni g.yu' bzang po la zer. Zhi-byed Coll. I 440.7. The blue beryl is identical to aquamarine. See the arguments in an article by Marianne Winder. = shin tu dangs pa. JD 32. LW 465. DG 81.4.
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- English
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