boḍisattva | बोडिसत्त्व | boDisattva
boḍi—sattva | बोडि—सत्त्व | m. ‘one whose essence is perfect knowledge’, one who is on the way to the attainment of p˚ k˚ (i.e. a Buddhist saint when he has only one birth to undergo before obtaining the state of a supreme Buddha and then Nirvāṇa), Śiś.; Kathās.; Rājat.; Buddh. (the early doctrine had only one Bodhisattva, viz. Maitreya; the later reckoned many more, MWB. 134, 188, 189)
N. of the principal Buddha of the present era (before he became a Buddha), Śiś., Sch.; L.
of a poet, Cat.
N. of the principal Buddha of the present era (before he became a Buddha), Śiś., Sch.; L.
of a poet, Cat.