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ཀུ་མུད་དགྲ་

Transliteration: ku mud dgra

<phrase> [Mngon] "Enemy of the Kumud". A metaphor for the sun, because daylight causes the ཀུ་མུད་ Kumud flower to close during the day. [GCD] A cognate term is ཀུ་མུད་གཉེན་ q.v.

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ཀུ་མུད་ཕན་

Transliteration: ku mud phan

<phrase> [Mngon] "Helper of the Kumud". A metaphor for "moonlight", because the light of the moon causes the ཀུ་མུད་ Kumud flower to open at night. [GCD] A cognate term is ཀུ་མུད་གཉེན་ q.v.

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ཀུ་མུད་གཉེན་

Transliteration: ku mud gnyen

<phrase> [Mngon] "Friend of the Kumud". A metaphor for the ཟླ་བ་ moon, because the light of the moon causes the ཀུ་མུད་ Kumud flower to blossom at night. [GCD] A cognate term is ཀུ་མུད་དགྲ་ "Enemy of the Kumud" q.v.

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ཀུ་མུད་དགའ་

Transliteration: ku mud dga'

<phrase> [Mngon] "Lover of the Kumud (flower)". The name of a bird. [GCD] gives as ཙ་ཀོ་ར་ཀ་.

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ཀུ་མུད་ཟས་ཅན་

Transliteration: ku mud zas can

<phrase> [Mngon] Lit. "having food of the Kumud (flower)". [GCD] gives as (the bird) ཙ་ཀོ་ར་ཀོ་.

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ཀུ་མུད་བཞད་དུས་

Transliteration: ku mud bzhad dus

<phrase> [Mngon] Lit. "time when the Kumud (flowers) open" which is a metaphor for "night time" since the ཀུ་མུད་ Kumud flower only opens at night. E.g., [GCD] gives མཚན་མོའི་དུས་ i.e., "night time".

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ཀུ་མུད་ལོ་མ་

Transliteration: ku mud lo ma

<phrase> [Mngon] Lit. "leaved with Kumud (flowers)." 1) [GCD] gives as དཔག་བསམ་ཤིང་ i.e., the wish-fulfilling tree. 2) [TC] gives as ཤིང་ཡོངས་འདུ་ས་བརྟོལ།.

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ཀུ་མུཏ་

Transliteration: ku mut

Mis-spelling of ཀུ་མུད་ q.v.

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ཀུ་མུ་ད་

Transliteration: ku mu da

An Altern. spelling of ཀུ་མུད་ q.v.

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ཀུ་མུ་དའི་གཉེན་

Transliteration: ku mu da'i gnyen

Same as ཀུ་མུད་གཉེན་ q.v.

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ཀུན་ད་

Transliteration: kun da

"Kunda". [TC] gives that it is a corruption of ཀུ་མུད་ Kumud q.v.

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ཀུ་མུད་

Transliteration: ku mud

<noun> "Kumud". This name is believed to be a corruption of the Sanskrit ཀུནྡ་ Kunda. It is said in Buddhist scriptures to be a white flower that grows in or near water and blossoms at night, and induces extreme hallucinations if eatent. This fits exactly with the Datura plant—which it is generally regarded to be. It is a member of the Lily family, grows close to streams, has a very large, …

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ཀུན་དའི་གཉེན་

Transliteration: kun da'i gnyen

<noun> [Mngon] "Friend of the Kunda". Same as ཀུ་མུད་གཉེན་ q.v.

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ཨུཏྤལ་དཀར་པོ་

Transliteration: autpala dkar po

<noun> "White Utpala". The ཀུ་མུད་ flower which is a white flower growing from water. This is different from a white lotus, པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་, which has a lot more petals than the utpala.

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ཀུ་མུ་དཱི་

Transliteration: ku mu d'i

<noun> [GCD] gives as ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ i.e., "moonlight".

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