In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Maṅgalapura (मङ्गलपुर).—According to the Mūlasarvāstivādin Vinaya, after having crossed the Indus towards the west, the Buddha took eight stages to cross Uḍḍiyāna, the Lampāka, and arrived in the neighborhood of Peshawar.

3rd stage.—Sojourn in the rice-granary city which is none other than Mangalaor, in Sanskrit, Maṅgalapura, the Mong kie li of Hiuan tsang (p. 883b), capital of the Uḍḍiyāna kings. There, according to the Mūlasarvāstivādin Vinaya and Hiuan tsang, the Buddha healed and converted the mother of king Uttarasena.

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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.

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptions

Maṅgalapura (मङ्गलपुर).—Maruturu grant of Pulakeśin II refers to the town of Maṅgalapura. The place is to be located somewhere in Guntur district.

Source: Jainworld: Jain History (h)

Maṅgalapura (मङ्गलपुर) was sacred to Abhinandana, the fourth Tīrthaṅkara as mentioned by Jinaprabhasūri in the Tīrthakalpa. The Śāsanachatustriṃśatikā of Madanakīrti also refers to Abhinandana Jina of Maṅgalapura. it was destroyed by the Muslims apparently in the 13th century and was again rebuilt. Jinaprabha tells that this temple once received a grant of land from Jayasiṃha II, the Paramāra king of Malwa who ruled in the third quarter of the 13th century.

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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

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Maṅgalapura (मङ्गलपुर):—[=maṅgala-pura] [from maṅgala] n. ‘city of prosperity’, Name of a town, [Catalogue(s)] (cf. maṅgala).

[Sanskrit to German]

Mangalapura 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pura, Mankala, Mangala.

Full-text: Sarvada.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Part 7 - Sarvada-jātaka < [Chapter XX - The Virtue of Generosity and Generosity of the Dharma]

Appendix 5 - The story of the bhikṣu Kṣānti < [Chapter VIII - The Bodhisattvas]

Part 8 - Jātaka of the king who set fire to his body so as to hear a Buddhist stanza < [Chapter XIX - The Characteristics of Generosity]

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Vastu-shastra (2): Town Planning (by D. N. Shukla)

Villages in ancient Indian town-planning < [Chapter 2 - Villages, Towns and Forts in General]

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Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)

Chapter 1 - Country of U-chang-na (Udyana) < [Book III - Eight Countries]

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