Transliteration: rgya gar
<noun> The name of the country "India". It is derived from རྒྱ་ meaning "an area" and གར་ which is དཀར་ changed by the grammatical rules of letter gender and meaning "white". Thus the name refers to the area where people wore mainly "white", which was and still is the custom in India. The name is given in contradistinction to e.g., རྒྱ་ནག་ "China" q.v.
