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धर्मदेशक (dharmadezaka)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
धर्म—देशक
m.
teacher of the law,
Pañc.
iii, 104/105 (v.l. °माद्°).
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
dharma-deśaka, m. (in Skt. rare and somewhat doubtful, see BR s.v. deśaka
= Pali dhammadesaka, Childers, s.v. desaka, also app. rare), preacher of the law
= the much commoner dharma-bhāṇaka
in BHS, too, not common, despite the frequency of dharma-deśanā: nirāmiṣa-dh° LV 〔436.2〕 (prose), of the Tathāgata.