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- A chakravarti (Sanskrit: चक्रवर्तिन्, IAST: Cakravartin) is an ideal (or idealized) universal ruler, in the history, and religion of India. The concept...
- each other by ordinary sailing vessels, although in the past, when the cakravartin kings ruled, communication between the continents was possible by means...
- Klostermaier, K. (1974). "The Bhaktirasamrtasindhubindu of Visvanatha Cakravartin". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 94 (1): 96–107. doi:10.2307/599733...
- as well as the Theravadin Milindapañha, describe some marks of the cakravartin, an idealised world-ruler, as consisting of an uṣṇīṣa or turban, a parasol...
- audiences. Yongle tried to portray himself as a Buddhist ideal king, a cakravartin. There is evidence that this portrayal was successful in persuading foreign...
- (Sanskrit: दिग्विजय-चक्रवर्तिन्-सम्राज्-सर्वदमन भरत, romanized: digvijaya-cakravartin-samrāj-sarvadamana bharata, lit. 'The World-conquering Bharata, who is...
- Gautama's life has been affected by his ****ociation with the ideal king (cakravartin), inspired by the growth of the Maurya empire a century after he lived...
- ISBN 978-952-12-1811-8., Quote: "(...) the Shambala-bodhisattva-king [Cakravartin Kalkin] and his army will defeat and destroy the enemy army, the barbarian...
- Isvara, Mahesvara (Shiva), a great heavenly general, Vaiśravaṇa, a Cakravartin, a minor king, an elder, a householder, a chief minister, a Brahmin,...
- each other by ordinary sailing vessels, although in the past, when the cakravartin kings ruled, communication between the continents was possible by means...