Sanskrit-Tibetan-Mongolian Parallels: Epithetsof Rivers
The publication is based on the epithets of rivers from the “Amarakosha” dictionary in Sanskrit, its Tibetan translations, the Tibetan dictionary “The Decoration of the Wise Men’s Ears” and the Ti- betan-Mongolian dictionary compiled by Sumatiratna. It is shown how the original Sanskrit epithets were re-arranged in the Tibetan dictionary according to the Buddhist cosmological tradition.