Property:CTD term short description

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Also known as the Panchavimsha Brahmana. The bibliography lists an edition with Sayana's commentary ...  +
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'''U — '''The twenty‐first letter of the Latin alphabet, which has no equivalent in Hebrew. As a num...  +
The same as Osiris, the latter name being Greek. Uasar is described as the “Egg‐born ”, like Brahmâ....  +
The model‐horse; one of the fourteen precious things or Jewels produced at the Churning of the Ocean...  +
Explained as “a protuberance on Buddha’s cranium, forming a hair‐tuft ”. This curious description is...  +
Extemporaneous speeches; also Sûtras. In philosophy the term applies to the physical organs of speec...  +
Modern Peshawer. “ The classic ''land of '' ''sorcery”'' according to Hiouen‐Thsang. Category: CTD i...  +
A king of Kausâmbî, called Vatsarâjâ, who was the first to have a statue of Buddha made before his d...  +
Indian administrator who retired from public service and entered the Sannyasa order. A letter to F. ...  +
Udra, the son of Râma. A Brahman ascetic, who was for some years the Guru of Gautama Buddha. Categor...  +
A lotus of gigantic size, sacred to Buddha: the ''Nila Udumbara'' or “blue lotus”, regarded as a sup...  +
Count of Donoratico and a participant in the struggle for power in Pisa; captured by Archbishop Rugg...  +
Associated with ''Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum'', a thirty-four-volume collection of studies of a...  +
The festival of “all souls”, the prototype of All Souls’ Day in Christian lands. It is held in China...  +
The god of archery, who “journeys over the silvery ice‐ways on skates”. He is the patron of the chas...  +
Spanish naval officer, traveller and scholar (1716-1795), author of Relación histórica del viaje a A...  +
The intelligible deity. The objective or material Universe, in the theogony of Mochus. The reflectio...  +
A schoolman who made a new alphabet for the Goths in the fourth century — a union of Greek letters w...  +
The bibliography lists Über den Spiritismus als wissenschaftliche Frage (Spiritualism as a Scientifi...  +
A daughter of Kauravya, King of the ''Nâgas'' in Pâtâla (the nether world, or more correctly, the An...  +