m. f. (with Buddhists or Jainas) perfect knowledge or wisdom (by which a man becomes a Buddha or Jina), the illuminated or enlightened intellect (of a Buddha or J°), [Kathās.]; [Rājat.]; [Śatr.]; [Lalit.] (cf. [MWB. 97, 188] &c.)
m. the tree of wisdom under which perfect wisdom is attained or under which a man becomes a Buddha, the sacred fig-tree, (Ficus Religiosa), [Hcat.] ([MWB. 35, 181] &c.)
‘wakener’, a cock, [L.]
N. of a man (= Buddha in a former birth), [Jātakam.]
bodhi—maṇḍa m. or n. (?) seat of wisdom (N. of the seats which were said to have risen out of the earth under 4 successive trees where Gautama Buddha attained to perfect wisdom), [MWB. 232] (cf. next).
bodhi—sattva m. ‘one whose essence is perfect knowledge’, one who is on the way to the attainment of perfect knowledge (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 Bodhi-sattva, 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.]