The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (655 page)
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Dh
tika
(Buddhist sage)
:
tika(Buddhist sage)
:
Dhoti
.
.
Dh
tar
ra
.
tarra.
In the
Mah
bh
rata
, the blind ‘king’, father of the
Kauravas
(Dh
rtar
ras), who, despite the meaning of his name (‘he whose kingdom is firm’), is too weak to stop his evil sons from playing their dice game against the
P
avas
and fighting the
Kuruk
etra
war.
Dh
tar
ra's blindness has been interpreted as a metaphor for the blindness of fate.
Mah
bhrata, the blind ‘king’, father of the
Kauravas
(Dh
rtarras), who, despite the meaning of his name (‘he whose kingdom is firm’), is too weak to stop his evil sons from playing their dice game against theP
avasand fighting the
Kuruk
etrawar.
Dh
tarra's blindness has been interpreted as a metaphor for the blindness of fate.Other books
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