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Friday, 15 May 2020 at 22:43
𘓱 [¹ngwy₁] 'heaven' is constructed from the left side of 𘓺 [¹ngwyr₁] 'heaven, emperor' and the left side of 𗾈 [²mi'₁] 'virtuous person, sage' {𘓺𘊱𗾈𘊱} babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiL…
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Friday, 15 May 2020 at 22:58
𘓱 [¹ngwy₁] and 𘓺 [¹ngwyr₁] are both used to translate Chinese 天 tiān 'heaven' (𘓺 more commonly than 𘓱, for example only 𘓺 is used in W. Xia era names, corresponding to Chinese 天 tiān 'heavenly' or 皇 huáng 'august'), and the two characters are obviously cognate.
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Friday, 15 May 2020 at 23:36
In this sutra illustration (Kychanov's 1999 Catalogue of Tangut Buddhist texts, p. 779) we see the Great Peacock Mahāmāyūrī labelled at the top 𘜶𗀝𗀪𘓱𗴺 (an exact translation of Chinese 大孔雀天母)
