The Chumon Gate in Koyasan, Japan is a very sacred place that was founded in ~815. They just rebuilt this gate 10 years ago for the 1200th anniversary of this place. So this place is older than Poland. Behind me, I think, is Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the Buddhist guardian king of the East.
His name is interesting. ‘dhṛta’ means ‘held’. You can see the same root in the Polish word ‘dzierżawczy’ and the Ukrainian word ‘держава’ /deržava/. The second part means ‘kingdom’, so ‘one who holds the kingdom’.
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