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Pagoda
Pagoda Pa*go"da, n. [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per.
but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol
+ kadah a house, a temple.]
1. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and
tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of
India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not
always, devoted to idol worship.
2. An idol. [R.] --Brande & C.
3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf.
Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or
silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current
in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and
a half rupees.
Meaning of Pagodas from wikipedia
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scaling pagodas. The
oldest and
tallest pagodas were
built of wood, but most that
survived were
built of
brick or stone. Some
pagodas are
solid with...
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Pagodas in ****an are
called tō (塔, lit.
pagoda),
sometimes buttō (仏塔, lit.
Buddhist pagoda) or tōba (塔婆, lit.
pagoda), and
derive historically from the...
- Twin
pagodas may
refer to: Twin
Pagoda Temple, in Taiyuan,
Shanxi province,
China Twin
Pagodas in Suzhou, Jiangsu,
China Twin
Pagodas of
Qingshou Temple...
- The
Three Pagodas of the
Chongsheng Temple (Chinese: 崇圣寺三塔; pinyin: Chóngshèng Sì Sāntǎ) are an
ensemble of
three independent pagodas arranged on the...
- slim book to the
actual legend of the
seven pagodas (Fyson 28). He
recounts a
local belief regarding the
pagodas, that the god
Indra became jealous of this...
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Burmese pagodas are
stupas that
typically house Buddhist relics,
including relics ****ociated with Buddha.
Pagodas feature prominently in Myanmar's landscape...
- April,
Three Pagodas P****
becomes a site of the
Songkran Festival with ****fights,
Burmese kickboxing and
various folk dancing.
Three Pagodas P****, Encyclopædia...
- The Sun and Moon
Pagodas (Chinese: 日月双塔; pinyin: Rìyuè Shuāngtǎ) are twin
pagodas located in Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Originally built in the city moat...
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Nawabs of Arcot, and
worth about 25% less than the star
pagoda. The
French struck local gold "
pagodas" and
silver "fanams"
under contract by the nawabs. The...
- at all
Buddhist pagodas.
Hiram Cox, the
British envoy to the
Burmese Court, in 1796,
observed the
tradition by not
visiting the
pagoda rather than take...
