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មហាវេស្សន្តរជាតក
The Vessantara Jataka
មហាវេស្សន្តរជាតក
Transliteration
môha vésândâ jéadâg
C2
IPA
/mɔːhaː ʋeisɑːntɑː ciətɑːk/
GD
moha vesanta cheatak
មហាវេស្សន្តរជាតក Meaning in English
Definitions
the Vessantara Jataka (the story of Prince Vessantara who was the Buddha's next to last incarnation, a favorite story of Cambodian Buddhists)
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Stems
មហា
Great
មហា / Great
A2
prefix meaning `big, great, large, grand; awesome; superior' usually occurring in words of Indic origin
វេស្សន្តរ
Prince Vessantara
វេស្សន្តរ / Prince Vessantara
C2
Prince Vessantara (name of the prince in the Vessantara Jataka. He is considered to be the next to last incarnation of the Buddha)
ជាតក
Nativity
ជាតក / Nativity
C2
birth; nativity; a birth or existence (in the Buddhist sense); a Jataka (a series of 550 apocryphal stories about the previous lives of the Buddha)
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