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sgra mi snyan/
ID:
T43092
  • སྒྲ་མི་སྙན (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
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Other Dictionaries

1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary

Hopkins' Translations: unpleasant sound; Kurava
Sanskrit: kuru; uttarakuru

Comment: In Buddhist cosmology this name is used for he northern continent as well as for one of the two smaller continents (gling phran brgyad) that are next to it: In the center, is the monarch of mountains, ri rab (meru). The four continents and eight smaller continents are (1) shar lus 'phags po (videha), the eastern continent land of [those with] superior/large bodies with lus (deha) and lus 'phags (videha); (2) lho 'dzam bu gling (jambudvīpa), the southern continent Jambu-tree land with rnga yab (cāmara) and rnga yab gzhan (aparacāmara); (3) nub ba blang spyod (godanīya) the western continent land of using cattle with g.yo ldan (sāthā) and lam mchog 'gro (uttaramantriṇa); (4) byang sgra mi snyan (kuru), the northern continent land of unpleasant sound with sgra mi snyan (kurava) and sgra mi snyan kyi zla (kaurava). Surrounding all of these is an outer rim of iron mountains.

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2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

  • Kurava. continent of Unpleasant Sound. 'Unpleasant Sound' [the northern continent]; Unpleasant Sound Uttarakuru (northern continent); Unpleasant Sound, the continent of Ominous Sound

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  • Unpleasant Sound; one of གླིང་བཞི་ the four continents

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3. Ives Waldo Dictionary

1) Kurava N continent of Unpleasant sound; 2) Kurba: E subcontinent of N continent

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English

4. Jim Valby Dictionary

disagreeable voice, northern continent, unpleasant sound island, 1 of gling phran brgyad, unpleasant sound continent, 1 of gling bzhi

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5. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo

[608] 1༽ ༼ཀུརུཿ༽ གླིང་བཞིའི་གྲས་རི་རབ་བྱང་ངོས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་གླིང་ཆེན། ... 2༽ ༼ཀུརབཿ༽ གླིང་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གྲས་བྱང་གླིང་གི་གླིང་ཕྲན་ཤར་མ། ...

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6. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary

(1) 〈ཀུརུཿ〉གླིང་བཞིའི་གྲས་རི་རབ་བྱང་ངོས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་གླིང་ཆེན། (2) 〈ཀུརབཿ〉གླིང་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གྲས་བྱང་གླིང་གི་གླིང་ཕྲན་ཤར་མ།

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Tibetan

7. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo

1 ཀུརུཿ གླིང་བཞིའི་གྲས་རི་རབ་བྱང་ངོས་སུ་ཡོད་པའི་གླིང་ཆེན། 2 ཀུརྦཿ གླིང་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གྲས་བྱང་གླིང་གི་གླིང་ཕྲན་ཤར་མ།

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9. Negi Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary

  • =(nā.) 1. kuruḥ, caturṣu dvīpeṣu ekaḥ (= བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན uttarakuruḥ) — kuruṣu tāvadubhayaṃ nāsti abhi.sphu.174kha/922; uttarakuruḥ — སྒྲ་མི་སྙན་པའི་མི uttarakurau narāḥ bo.a.10.17 2. kuravaḥ, aṣṭasu antaradvīpeṣu ekaḥ — dehā videhāḥ kuravaḥ kauravāścāmarāvarāḥ

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  • aṣṭau tadantaradvīpā gāṭhā uttaramantriṇaḥ abhi.ko.3.56; tatra dehavidehau pūrvavidehaparivārau

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  • kurukauravau uttarakuroḥ abhi.bhā.3.56 3. kauravyaḥ, nṛpaḥ — sthūlakoṣṭhake kauravyo nāma rājā rājyaṃ kārayati a.śa.247ka/227.

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Sanskrit:
kuravaḥ