The Sanskrit term Ūrṇākośa can be transliterated into English as Urnakosa or Urnakosha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Ūrṇākośa (ऊर्णाकोश) refers to the “treasure of hair”, 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, [after the Bhagavān witnessed the drought at the lotus-lake near Aḍakavatī], “Then the Bhagavān knew that this is experienced because of a cause of action. Still one should have mercy on them. The Bhagavān released rays from the treasure of hair (ūrṇākośa). These rays illuminated all the Nāga residences. Having illuminated them, they turned back and disappeared up in the topknot”.

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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.

General definition (in Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī

Ūrṇākośa (ऊर्णाकोश) refers to “a hairy mole between the eye-brows” and represents the fourth of the thirty-two major marks of distinction (lakṣaṇa) mentioned in the Sukhāvatī and following the order, but not always the exact wording, of the Mahāvyutpatti (236-67). In Tibetan, the characteristic called Ūrṇākośa is known as ‘mdzod spu’. The Sukhāvatī represents a prayer for rebirth which was composed by Karma chags med, a Karma bka’ brgyud master, who lived in the seventeenth century.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Ūrṇākośa (ऊर्णाकोश).—m., = ūrṇā, q.v.; usually as place from which a Buddha emits rays of brilliant light (raśmi, pra- bhā): bhagavāṃs…ūrṇākośād raśmiṃ prāmuñcat Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 243.3; similarly Lalitavistara 393.17; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 169.4; Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 13.4; ūrṇa-(m.c.)-kośā Lalitavistara 116.7 (verse); bhrūvivarāntarād ūrṇāko- śād Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 20.8 (ekā raśmir niścaritā); Lalitavistara 300.7; rarely in lists of 32 lakṣaṇa, Mahāvyutpatti 239, where erroneously °keśa for °kośa (so also Mironov; Burnouf, Lotus 563, records the same error once); Tibetan, as regularly for both ūrṇā and ūrṇākośa, mdzod (= kośa) spu (= hair). In Lalitavistara 357.9 (verse) na tapati abhibhūtā bhānuvatyorṇapāśā (v.l. °ṇakośā), does not shine, being surpassed by the (Buddha's) resplendent hair-curl, I understand bhānuvatyā ūrṇa-(m.c. for ūrṇā-)-pāśā (or -kośā), instr. sg. (pāśa, tie, knot, mass; but in view of the fem. adj. perhaps an otherwise unknown fem. pāśā must be assumed).

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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: Kosha, Urna, Koca.

Ends with: Purnakosha.

Full-text: Urnapasha, Bhanuvant, Urna, Pasha, Lakshana.

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