Ratnaketu, (1) (12592)

Ratnaketu, (1)
Entry 12592, Page 451, Col. 1

(ratnaketu, ratnaketu)
Ratnaketu, (1)¦ n. of several Buddhas: Suv 2.4; 8.1; 120.2, 6 (here presides over the south); Sukh 6.14 (here a former Buddha); repeatedly in Mmk, 42.21; 129.9; 130.2 f.; 132.25; 139.2 (lives in Ratnāvatī, q.v.); 289.12; 305.14; 426.7; (Ratana°, in a vs) Gv 256.7 (a former Buddha); (2) n. of one or more Bodhisattvas: Mvy 654; AsP 449.20; Samādh p. 36 line 1; (3) n. of a work: Mvy 1349; the ed. note conjectures relation to a Chin. text the title of which is rendered Mahāsamnipāta-ratnaketu- dhāraṇī; this is possibly confirmed by Mmk 109.28 where there is reference to a Ratnaketu-dhāraṇī (misprinted °dhāriṇī).