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bodhisattva

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.]

of a poet, [Cat.]