In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Kākhorda (काखोर्द) refers to a group of deities [?], according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [as the Bhagavān said to the great Nāga kings]: “Now I will teach the auspicious offering manual which can bring about any effect. [...] All flowers, fruits and crops will be well developed. They will be perfectly ripe and juicy. All seeds shoot forth easily developed. All Kṛtyā-sorcery and Kākhordas will perish. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kakhorda (कखोर्द).—: Gaṇḍavyūha 214.6, m.c. for kākhorda, q.v.

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Kākhorda (काखोर्द).—m. (Iranian loanword, Burrow, BSOS 7.781), a kind of evil spirit, often associated with vetālas (vetāḍas): Mahāvyutpatti 4375 = Tibetan byad, an evil demon: Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 3.2 (verse) °da-dāruṇa-grahe; 157.8 (verse) °da-graha-dāruṇā; 104.4 and 107.8 sarva-kākhorda-vetāḍāḥ (107.8 °ḍān); Śikṣāsamuccaya 192.8 (daṇḍanītiśāstrāṇi) kākhorda-śāstrāṇi vādavi- dyā-śā° (translation(s) charms for procuring death, but better devil-lore); Gaṇḍavyūha 214.6 (verse) vetālamantra tha kakhorda (m.c. ka-) sadā prayuktā; 450.25 kākhorda-vetāḍa-prati- ghāteṣu; Sādhanamālā 309.11; 406.10; Mahā-Māyūrī 220.18 etc.

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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.

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Full-text: Cicca, Kirana, Sarvabija, Samvardhita, Paripakta, Suparipakta, Parinishpanna, Suparinishpanna.

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Journal of the European Ayurvedic Society (by Inge Wezler)

The Svastika antidote < [Volume 2 (1992)]

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