dagoba
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dagoba
1800–10; < Sinhalese dāgoba < Pali dhātugabbha < Sanskrit dhātugarbha, equivalent to dhātu relics + garbha womb, inside
Example Sentences
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When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half-hewn statue of the Buddha greets the eye amid carvings of supreme delicacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are numbers of the same square-cut granite columns that we saw at the Brazen Temple falling about near the dagoba, some this way and some that.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
Dutugaimunu, when building the Ruanwell� dagoba, provided for the labourers amongst other articles "the five condiments used in mastication."
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
Stupa, stū′pa, n. a Buddhist monument: a dagoba or shrine of Buddha.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
On the occasion of building the great dagoba, the Ruanwell�, at Anarajapoora, B.C.
From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
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