Alternative spellings of this word include Kanchanachakra.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Kāñcanacakra (काञ्चनचक्र).—nt., gold-orb, under the earth (see LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK iii.138 ff., especially kāñcanamayī bhūmi 140): Divyāvadāna 197.8 (yāvatī bhūmir ākrāntā adho 'śītiyojanasahasrāṇi) yāvat kāñcana-cakram…; same passage, with a few slight variants, cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 148.(14—)15, from some unnamed work of the Sarvāstivāda school, doubtless Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya, tho not found there in i—iii; compare Winternitz, Hist. Ind. Lit., 2 (1933).284—5. The same is called Kāñ- canamayī bhūmi, q.v., in Kāraṇḍavvūha.

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Kāñcanacakra (काञ्चनचक्र) or Kāñcanamayī-bhūmi.—q.v., where Abhidharmakośa is cited: Kāraṇḍavvūha 24.22 f. sā Kāñcanamayī nāma bhūmir asti yad uttarasyāṃ Kāñcanamayyāṃ bhūmyāṃ gatvā Avalokiteśvaro…'dhomukhānāṃ sat- tvānāṃ dharmaṃ deśayati sma.

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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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Partial matches: Cakra, Kancana.

Full-text: Kancanamayibhumi.

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