དཔལ་མདའ་བསྣུན་
Transliteration: dpal mda' bsnun
<phrase> "The Glorious Archer", an epithet of the Indian Mahāsiddha, ས་ར་ཧ་ Saraha.
དཔལ་གྱི་རི་
Transliteration: dpal gyi ri
<noun> "Glory Mountain". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrī parvata". 1) The name of the abode of Saraha, དཔལ་མདའ་བསྣུན་ the glorious archer. 2) The name of a mountain on the northern sub-continent Chamara; see རྔ་ཡབ་དཔལ་གྱི་རི་བོ་.
ས་ར་ཧ་
Transliteration: sa ra ha
<noun> "Saraha". The name of a great Indian Mahāsiddha. Often called དཔལ་མདའ་བསྣུན་ q.v. or བྲམ་ཟེ་ཆེན་པོ་ q.v. Saraha was born a Brahmin and later became a great siddhi in the Buddhist tradition. He was later regarded as the grandfather or chief of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas. In particular, he is a source of much of the Mahāmudrā tradition found in all Tibetan Buddhist traditions and part…
མདའ་བསྣུན་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: mda' bsnun chen po
<noun> "The Great Archer". An epithet of the Indian Mahāsiddha Saraha. Saraha often refers to himself as "The Great Archer" within his various dohas.
