cakkravarttis

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” Carling et al. 2009: “Cakravartin”; king of the world
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	cakravārtti
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. cakravartin-, GD cakravarti-?
Lexeme variants:	cakkravarttis; cakravartis; cakravarttis
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	cakravarti	cakravarttiñ
voc
acc	cakravarti
gen	cakkravarttis
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• cakravartti “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” “Cakravartin” king of the world m

  	sg	pl
  nom	cakravarti	cakravarttiñ
  acc	cakravarti
  gen	cakkravarttis

  • cakravarti-lāñci “belonging to a Cakravartin-king”

    	pl.f
    nom	cakravarti-lāñcināñ

  • cakravarti-wäl “cakravarti-king” m

    	sg	pl
    nom	cakravartti-wäl	cakravarttiñ-lāñś
    acc	cakravarttis-lānt
    inst	cakravarttis-lāntyo

    • cakravarti-lāntune “Cakravartin-kingship” n

      	sg
      acc	cakravarti-lāntune

  • cakravartune “Cakravartin-status, dominion of the world” n

    	sg
    nom	cakravartuney
    acc	cakravartuney
    all	cakravartuneyac

  • cakravartṣi “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” “Cakravartin” king of the world

    	sg.m
    acc	cakkravartṣi

Occurrences

cakkravarttis

1	A 256 a2	॥ tmäṣ säm śaṅkhe	cakkravarttis	lānt se siṃhe wä(l)
2	A 297 a7	kukäl /// a7 s	cakkravarttis	lānt källāṣ cem penu
3	A 355 a2	a2 ॥ viśikonaṃ ॥	cakkravarttis	; lānt maṅkal ;
4	A 382 a1	(su)bhādrenaṃ ॥ pūttiśparṣināp ;	cakkravarttis	lānt ; cākkär lakṣaṇyo

cakravartis

1

A 24 a3

täm pälkoräṣ bṛhadyutis kuntistsekāp

cakraa4(varti)s

lānt oki – – – k(ā)cke

cakravarttis

1	A 150 b3	ñc· yärśār klyantr-äṃ •	cakrava(r)tt(i)s	lāntyo ptāñkät kä b4
2	A 337 b3	/// b3 /// n··	cakravarttis	lānt k· /// b4
3	YQ II.3 a3	15σ 4σ /// ;	(ca)kravarttis	; lānt watkurā ;
4	YQ III.5 a7	/// nāśi säs puttiśparṣināp	cakravarttis	lānt nyagrodharāmṣi lāñci waa8(rpiśke)

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.