གྲགས་འཛིན་མ་

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གྲགས་འཛིན་མ། (Wyl. grags 'dzin ma) n. Pron.: drak dzinma

  • Yashodhara (wife, mother of Rahula) [Life of the Buddha]
  • Skt. Yaśodharā. Yaśodharā, Buddha's second wife. According to some sources, Prince Siddhārtha took three principal wives, each with a retinue of twenty thousand handmaidens. The third wife's name was Mṛgajā, རི་དྭགས་སྐྱེས་. [Names] [Buddha's Contemporaries]
  • Skt. यशोधरा, yaśodharā, Pron.: yashodhara. From Sanskrit: N. of the fourth night of the civil month [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW

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