kāñcana-cakra (4679)

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kāñcana-cakra
Entry 4679, Page 176, Col. 1
(kAYcanacakra, kAYcana-cakra)
kāñcana-cakra¦, nt., gold-orb, under the earth (see LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK iii.138 ff., esp. kāñcanamayī bhūmi 140): Divy 197.8 (yāvatī bhūmir ākrāntā adho 'śītiyojanasahasrāṇi) yāvat kāñcana-cakram…; same passage, with a few slight variants, cited Śikṣ 148.(14--)15, from some unnamed work of the Sarvāstivāda school, doubtless MSV, tho not found there in i--iii; cf. Winternitz, Hist. Ind. Lit., 2 (1933).284--5. The same is called Kāñ- canamayī bhūmi, q.v., in Kv.

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