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आत्मभावता (AtmabhAvatA)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
[ātmabhāvatā, Senartʼs em. Mv 〔ii.301.11〕 (prose) sarvatra bodhisattvasya °tām anuprāptāṃ saṃjānanti
should mean embodiment, from ātmabhāva plus -tā. But the occasion is the approach to his enlightenment (not his conception or birth), which is signalized by miracles and cosmic portents. The mss. read °bhāvanām, which is doubtless right: they recognize on all sides that the Bodhisattvaʼs self-realization (ātma-bhāvanā) is at hand.]