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रत्नकेतु (ratnaketu)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
रत्नकेतु ratnaketu
m.
name common to 2000 future buddhas
Monier Williams Cologne
English
रत्न—केतु
m.
N.
of a Buddha,
Buddh.
of a Bodhisattva, ib.
a
N.
common to 2000 future Buddhas (also °तु-राज), ib.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Ratnaketu,
(1) n. of several Buddhas: Suv 〔2.4〕
〔8.1〕
〔120.2, 6〕 (here presides over the south)
Sukh 〔6.14〕 (here a former Buddha)
repeatedly in Mmk, 〔42.21〕
〔129.9〕
〔130.2 f.〕
〔132.25〕
〔139.2〕 (lives in Ratnāvatī, q.v.)
〔289.12〕
〔305.14〕
〔426.7〕
(Ratana°, in a vs) Gv 〔256.7〕 (a former Buddha)
(2) n. of one or more Bodhisattvas: Mvy 〔654〕
AsP 〔449.20〕
Samādh 〔p. 36 line 1〕
(3) n. of a work: Mvy 〔1349〕
the ed. note conjectures relation to a Chin. text the title of which is rendered Mahāsamnipāta-ratnaketudhāraṇī
this is possibly confirmed by Mmk 〔109.28〕 where there is reference to a Ratnaketu-dhāraṇī (misprinted °dhāriṇī).