Dharmarāja
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Dharmarāja; (Skt.; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Chökyi Gyalpo; Wyl. chos kyi rgyal po) for the hell realms; ○rāja m. 'id.' a just or righteous king Hariv.
• any king or prince L.
• a Buddha L.
• N. of Yama MBh. Hariv. Dal. &c. (-tā f. MBh.)
• of Yudhishṭhira MBh. Hariv. (-purogama mfn. headed by Yudhishṭhira MW.)
• Law conceived as a king Kāraṇḍ.
• N. of sev. authors (also [-dIkSita "ṣtīya n. his wk.], -putra, -bhaṭṭa, ○jâdhvari-vara and ○jâdhvaríndra m.)
Dharmarāja Adhvarīndra - A gṛhastha scholar from southern India, Dharmarāja Adhvarīndra (c. 16th century CE) authored the Vedānta Paribhāṣā, a widely used epistemological work on Advaita-Vedanta generally identified with the Vivaraṇa school.
