Pancacira, Pañcacīra: 6 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPañcacīra (पञ्चचीर).—(compare also Pañcavīra), an epithet of Mañ-juśrī: Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1.1.22 ([Boehtlingk and Roth]); Lalou, Iconographie, 67 with note 4; see s.v. cīraka (Pañca-c°). Lalou thinks this epithet ultimately related to the gandharva Pañcaśikha, q.v. for some evidence tending to support the theory. See pañcacīrā.
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Pañcacīrā (पञ्चचीरा).—in °rāsu vinyastaḥ (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 334.4; lacuna precedes these words, so that application is not clear; perhaps on five strips of cloth (? the fem. cīrā occurs in Sanskrit tho very seldom, see [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. cīra).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcacīra (पञ्चचीर).—m.
(-raḥ) A Baud'dha saint and legistator; also named Manju- Ghosa, apparently the teacher of this doctrine in Nepal. E. pañca spreading, cīra rags.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcacīra (पञ्चचीर):—[=pañca-cīra] [from pañca] m. a, [Buddhist literature] saint also named Mañjuśrī (the teacher of Buddhism in Nepal, [Monier-Williams’ Buddhism 202 n. 1]), [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcacīra (पञ्चचीर):—[pañca-cīra] (raḥ) 1. m. A Bauddha sage.
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Starts with: Pancaciraka.
Full-text: Pancavirakumara, Pancashikha.
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