Kushtana, Kustana, Kuṣṭāṇa: 3 definitions
Introduction:
Kushtana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Kuṣṭāṇa can be transliterated into English as Kustana or Kushtana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: archive.org: Bulletin of the French School of the Far East (volume 5)Kustana or Kusthana (in Sanskrit) is possibly identified with Khotan (in Chinese: Yu-t'ien), which refers to one of the fifty-five kingdoms enumerated in chapter 17 of the Candragarbha: the 55th section of the Mahāsaṃnipāta-sūtra, a large compilation of Sūtras (texts) in Mahāyāna Buddhism partly available in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese.
Kustana [=Khotan ?] (in Chinese: Kia-leou-ho) is the name of an ancient kingdom associated with Kṛttikā or Kṛttikānakṣatra, as mentioned in chapter 18.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykuṣṭāṇa (कुष्टाण).—f (kusaṭa & ghāṇa) The smell of rotting or putrefying substances.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishkuṣṭāṇa (कुष्टाण).—f The smell of rooting substances.
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.
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Full-text: Kusthana, Khotan, Vaishravana.
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Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 22 - Country of Kiu-sa-ta-na (Khotan) < [Book XII - Twenty-two Countries]
Chapter 21 - Country of Cho-kiu-kia (Chakuka? or Yarkiang) < [Book XII - Twenty-two Countries]
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (by Fa-Hien)
A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)