གཙང་བ་

གཙང་བ། (Wyl. gtsang ba ) Pron.: tsangwa

• Skt. शुचिः, śuci, Pron.: shuchi. From Sanskrit: shining, glowing, gleaming, radiant, bright | brilliantly white, white | clear, clean, pure | and | holy, unsullied, undefiled, innocent, honest, virtuous | pure (in a ceremonial sense) | one who has acquitted himself of or discharged | a duty | purification, purity, honesty, virtue | fire | N. of a •partic. fire (a son of Agni Abhimānin and Svāhā or a son of Antardhāna and Śikhaṇḍinī and brother of the fires Pavamāna and Pāvaka) | oblation to fire at the first feeding of an infant | a •partic. hot month | to some = Āshāḍha or Jyeshṭha | to others | the sun | the moon | the planet Venus or its regent | a ray of light | wind | sexual love | a Brāhman | a faithful minister, true friend | the condition of a religious student | a fever that attacks pigs | judicial acquittal | white (the colour) | a •partic. plant | N. of Śiva | of a son of Bhṛigu | of a son of Gada | of a son of the third Manu | of Indra in the 14th Manv-antara | of one of the 7 sages in the 14th Manv-antara | of a Sārthavāha | of a son of Śata-dyumna | of a son of Śuddha (the son of Anenas) | of a son of Andhaka | of a son of Vipra | of a son of Artha-pati | also | N. of a daughter of Tāmrā and wife of Kaśyapa, (regarded as the parent of water-fowl) [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW