Sixteen great kingdoms: Difference between revisions

From Rigpa Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "In ''The Sutra of Vasishtha'' in the Tibetan Kangyur the '''sixteen great kingdoms''' (Skt. ''Mahājanapada''; Tib. ཡུལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་དྲ...")
 
No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
In ''[[The Sutra of Vasishtha]]'' in the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] the '''sixteen great kingdoms''' (Skt. ''Mahājanapada''; Tib. ཡུལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་དྲུག, [[Wyl.]] ''yul chen po bcu drug'')  are listed as:
In ''[[The Sutra of Vasishtha]]'' in the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] the '''sixteen great kingdoms''' (Skt. ''Mahājanapada''; Tib. ཡུལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་དྲུག, [[Wyl.]] ''yul chen po bcu drug'')  are listed as:


Aṅga, Magadha, Kośala, Kāśī, Vṛji, Malla, Puṇḍra, Srekpa, Kāmā, Avanti, Kuru, Pañcāla, Vatsa, Śūrasena, Yavana, and Kamboja. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>
#Aṅga, (Tib. ཨང་ག, Wyl. ''ang ga'')
#Magadha, (Tib. མ་ག་དྷཱ།, Wyl. ''ma ga d+hA'') 
#Kośala, (Tib. ཀོ་ས་ལ།, Wyl. ''ko sa la'')
#Kāśī, (Tib. ཀཱ་ཤི།, Wyl. ''kA shi'')
#Vṛji, (Tib. བྲྀ་ཛི།, Wyl. ''br-i dzi'') 
#Malla, (Tib. མལླ།, Wyl. ''Malla'')
#Puṇḍra, (Tib. པུན་དྲ།, Wyl. ''pun dra'')
#Srekpa, (Tib. སྲེག་པ།, Wyl. ''sreg pa'')
#Kāmā, (Tib. ཀཱ་མཱ། , Wyl. ''kA mA'')
#Avanti, (Tib. ཨ་བན་ཏི།, Wyl. ''a ban ti'')
#Kuru, (Tib. ཀུ་རུ།, Wyl. ''ku ru'')
#Pañcāla, (Tib. ལྔ་ལེན།, Wyl. ''lnga len'')
#Vatsa, (Tib. བད་ས།, Wyl. ''bad sa'')
#Śūrasena, (Tib. དཔལ་སྡེ། or དཔེ་སྡེ། or དཔའ་སྡེ།, Wyl. ''dpal sde'' or ''dpe sde'' or ''dpa’ sde'')
#Yavana (Tib. ཡ་བ་ན།, Wyl. ''ya ba na''), and  
#Kamboja. (Tib. ཀམ་པོ།, Wyl. ''kam po''). <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>


In Aṅguttara Nikāya in the [[Pali Canon]], we find the sixteen kingdoms listed as:  
In Aṅguttara Nikāya in the [[Pali Canon]], we find the sixteen kingdoms listed as:  

Latest revision as of 11:46, 10 October 2022

In The Sutra of Vasishtha in the Tibetan Kangyur the sixteen great kingdoms (Skt. Mahājanapada; Tib. ཡུལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་དྲུག, Wyl. yul chen po bcu drug) are listed as:

  1. Aṅga, (Tib. ཨང་ག, Wyl. ang ga)
  2. Magadha, (Tib. མ་ག་དྷཱ།, Wyl. ma ga d+hA)
  3. Kośala, (Tib. ཀོ་ས་ལ།, Wyl. ko sa la)
  4. Kāśī, (Tib. ཀཱ་ཤི།, Wyl. kA shi)
  5. Vṛji, (Tib. བྲྀ་ཛི།, Wyl. br-i dzi)
  6. Malla, (Tib. མལླ།, Wyl. Malla)
  7. Puṇḍra, (Tib. པུན་དྲ།, Wyl. pun dra)
  8. Srekpa, (Tib. སྲེག་པ།, Wyl. sreg pa)
  9. Kāmā, (Tib. ཀཱ་མཱ། , Wyl. kA mA)
  10. Avanti, (Tib. ཨ་བན་ཏི།, Wyl. a ban ti)
  11. Kuru, (Tib. ཀུ་རུ།, Wyl. ku ru)
  12. Pañcāla, (Tib. ལྔ་ལེན།, Wyl. lnga len)
  13. Vatsa, (Tib. བད་ས།, Wyl. bad sa)
  14. Śūrasena, (Tib. དཔལ་སྡེ། or དཔེ་སྡེ། or དཔའ་སྡེ།, Wyl. dpal sde or dpe sde or dpa’ sde)
  15. Yavana (Tib. ཡ་བ་ན།, Wyl. ya ba na), and
  16. Kamboja. (Tib. ཀམ་པོ།, Wyl. kam po). [1]

In Aṅguttara Nikāya in the Pali Canon, we find the sixteen kingdoms listed as:

Aṅga, Magadha, Kāsi, Kosala, Vajji, Malla, Ceti, Vaṅga, Kuru, Pañcāla, Maccha, Sūrasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhāra, and Kamboja.

References

  1. 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.