| YouTube Channel

कुमारभूत (kumArabhUta)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
kumāra-bhūta, adj., while still a youth
remaining a youth
a stock epithet of Mañjuśrī, q.v., who is perennially young: SP 〔7.8—9〕
〔260.16〕
〔275.1 ff.〕
Mvy 〔650〕
but also of others, esp. Bodhisattvas, Mvy 〔693—5, 698—9〕, and cf. 〔883〕 te ca bodhisattvā bhūyastvena sarve kumārabhūtāḥ
also of Buddhas, with reference to the period before their enlightenment, SP 〔19.2〕
〔160.9〕
〔311.2〕 (here of Śākyamuni)
and even of an ordinary human being, Jīvaka, Divy 〔270.12, 20〕
〔506.8 ff.〕
but this is probably based on a misunderstanding and consequent re-formation of next, q.v.