chakravala chakravartin

Indian ruler

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…three types of secular chakravartin: chakravala chakravartin, a king who rules over all four of the continents posited by ancient Indian cosmography (i.e., a universal monarch); dvipa chakravartin, a ruler who governs only one of those continents and is, therefore, less powerful than the first; and pradesha chakravartin, a monarch…
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