bodhi (11011)

bodhi
Entry 11011, Page 402, Col. 1

(boDi, boDi)
bodhi¦ (in mgs. 1--3 = Pali id.), (1) (in this sense regularly f., as in Pali, when modifiers determine gender; hardly used at all in Skt. except Jain Skt., rarely Skt. as m., BR 5.1650) enlightenment, the quality attained by a Buddha: clearly f. SP 63.8; 70.8; 140.4; 323.8; 335.9 (all vss); so regularly in LV, e.g. 365.1 (vs), Mv, e.g. i.170.9, and most texts; so also (samyak-)saṃbodhi, qq.v.; gender undetermined, Vaj 34.3, 19; possibly m. SP 64.7 (vs; imu buddhabodhim, acc. sg.); LV 243.7 (vs; anuprāptu…bodhis, n. sg.), but possibly the forms in u are to be understood as f. (§§ 9.13, 23); (2) (in this sense said to be m. in Pali, see Childers; most BHS passages do not reveal the gender) = bodhi-druma, °yaṣṭi, °vaṭa, the tree of enlightenment, under which the Bodhi- sattva became enlightened: clearly f. at least once, bodhīya mūle Mv i.3.1; gender undetermined, Mv i.249.2; 252.1; Divy 397.21, 24; 403.3, 7; bodhi-mūla, the root (foot) of the bodhi-tree, Mv i.158.1; ii.302.18; iii.272.18; (3) n. of a wandering mendicant, previous birth of the Bodhisattva (= Mahābodhi; in the corresp. Pali story both forms occur, but Bodhi is commoner): Jm 143.18; (4) name said to be given to the ‘elephant jewel’ of a cakravartin: LV 16.1 (prose); not noted elsewhere.

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