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भद्रपाल (bhadrapAla)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भद्र—पाल
m.
N.
of a Bodhi-sattva,
Buddh.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Bhadrapāla,
(1) n. of the first of the 16 ‘virtuous men’ (satpuruṣa): SP 〔3.10〕 (with list of 16 names)
RP 〔2.2〕 (characterized as such, but without names of the others)
(2) n. of a Bodhisattva: SP 〔383.1〕
Mvy 〔692〕
(and prob.) Mmk 〔311.16〕 (more likely than the ‘satpuruṣa’). A Bhadrapāla Sūtra exists in Chin., and a BHS fragment of it is recorded by Thomas ap. Hoernle MR 〔88 ff.〕