Maheśvara, (1) (11928)

Maheśvara, (1)
Entry 11928, Page 427, Col. 2

(maheSvara, maheSvara)
Maheśvara, (1)¦ sg. or pl.; in LV 112.3; 113.1, 11, a devaputra, evidently a leader of the śuddhāvāsakāyika gods, with whom he comes to salute the infant Bodhisattva and predict his future Buddhahood; in Mv i.224.3, 5 = ii.27.3, 5 (vss) pl., 8000 gods named Mah° come to cast the horoscope of the infant Bodhisattva; prob. interpret in this sense maheśvara-rūpeṇa (the Bodhisattva, it is suggested, should enter his mother's womb thus) LV 39.12; Mvy 3108 mahāmaheśvarāyatanam, q.v., a special stage of śuddhāvāsakāyika gods; (2) n. of a yakṣa: Divy 41.2 ff.; Suv 161.6; Māy 9; (3) n. of one or two Bodhisattva(s): Sādh 71.4 (here between Avalokite- śvara and Mahāsthāmaprāpta); Gv 442.6 (in a long, rigmarole list).

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