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| Wylie Definition | bucket-wheel, "A devise for raising water from a well for irrigation, consisting of buckets fixed to an endless rope passing over a wheel, so as to fill themselves at the bottom and empty themselves at the top." Essential Nectar. Skt. araghaTTa. (related to 'irrigate'?!) T&BS I 51. 476 IV 402.1. Related to zo ba. BBNP 477, 484. See B. Laufer, The Noria or Persian Wheel, Oriental Studies in Honour of C.E. Pavry (1933). sa mthon por chu 'dren byed kyi 'khor lo. Btsan-lha. The bucket-wheel (ghaTiyantra) of rebirth is something that figures in a very early version of the Wheel of Life. See Neumann in TS9 VII 77-78. |
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