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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Gogrāsa (गोग्रास) refers to the “cow’s mouth”, according to Buddhist teachings followed by the Newah in Nepal, Kathmandu Valley (whose roots can be traced to the Licchavi period, 300-879 CE).— The Kalaśapūjā also includes the worship of Gaṇeśa and Mahākāla; the deity Āyurvṛddhi, “the Increase of Long Life”, as the Dhaupati, “Yogurt Pot”; the pañca-gomātā, “the Five Cows” deities, as the Gogrāsa, literally “cow’s mouth”, which is a leaf for making offerings to the pañca-gomātā; Vasundharā and Lakṣmī, the Goddesses of the earth and wealth respectively, as the Jvālā Nhāykaṃ, “the flaming mirror” and Sinhaḥmū, a special pot for storing ṭīkā powder, (both names in Newah), respectively; Cakrasaṃvara and Vajravārāhī again as the mākaḥdalū and kāybhaḥ; and finally this time Vaiśvānara, “The Universal Man”, another form of the sun god, as the sukundā.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Go-grāsa.—troughful of fodder for the cattle (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXV, p. 108). Note: go-grāsa is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

gōgrāsa (गोग्रास).—m (S) The portion of food reserved at the beginning of a meal to be given to a cow.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

gōgrāsa (गोग्रास).—m The portion of food reserved at the beginning of a meal to be given to a cow.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gogrāsa (गोग्रास).—the ceremony of offering a morsel (of grass) to a cow when performing an expiatory rite.

Derivable forms: gogrāsaḥ (गोग्रासः).

Gogrāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms go and grāsa (ग्रास).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gogrāsa (गोग्रास).—m.

(-saḥ) The ceremony of presenting grass to the cow when making atonement. E. go, and grāsa a mouthful.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Gogrāsa (गोग्रास):—[=go-grāsa] [from go] m. = -ghāsa, [Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra iii, 14, 4]

2) [v.s. ...] the ceremony of presenting a mouthful of grass to a cow when performing an expiatory rite, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] the feeding like a cow, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gogrāsa (गोग्रास):—[go-grāsa] (saḥ) 1. m. The ceremony of presenting grass to the cow when an atonement is made.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gograsa in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Gōgrāsa (ಗೋಗ್ರಾಸ):—

1) [noun] coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum; fodder.

2) [noun] food offered to a cow, as a part of religious rites.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Gograsa (गोग्रस):—n. the ceremony of offering a morse to a cow when performing an expiratory rite;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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Partial matches: Grasa, Go.

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