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*Dharmaśrī

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  • The Sanskrit name underlying the Mongolian name Tarmashirin. See Michal Biran, The Chaghadaids and Islam: The Conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34), Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 122, no. 4 (October-December 2002), pp. 742-752.
  • A questionable Sanskritization of Fa-chi-hsiang. An Indian monk who came to the Chinese court in 1027 CE. Jan, Relations, p. 157.
  • In a story about Khotan, Dharmaśrī ruled a city on the border of Khotan and had a beautiful daughter named Lha lcam Bde ma sbyin. She was accused of sexual relations with the monk Li sras. See Todd Gibson's dissertation (1991) 203.