Pāli Dictionary

vaṅga

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • 拔沙(今孟加拉一带的古国名)

  • Vaṅga, an ancient country/region (identified with eastern Bengal)

Encyclopedia

  • 凡伽人之国,即今日之孟加拉;狮子臂与狮子悉婆利的外祖母出自此地的凡伽公主,嫁与羯陵伽国王,《弥兰陀王问经》亦提及此地为海路可达的贸易港。

  • The country of the Vaṅgā people, identified with modern Bengal, mother-country of the Vaṅga princess who married a Kāliṅga king and became grandmother of Sīhabāhu and Sīhasīvalī, and noted in the Milindapañha as a trading port reached by sea.

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