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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Abhisaṃbodhati (अभिसंबोधति) or Abhisaṃbudhyate or Abhisaṃbudhyati or Abhisaṃbudhati or Abhisaṃbuddhati.—(on the last two see Chap. 43, s.v. budh; = Pali °bujjhati; very rare in Sanskrit, recorded [Boehtlingk and Roth] and [Boehtlingk] only once, ppp. °buddhaḥ, with atra, well skilled, learned, enlightened on this matter, Mahābhārata Crit. ed. 3.178.27; the pres. °bodhati implied in ger. °bodhitvā), (1) becomes enlightened, attains complete enlightenment (i.e. becomes a Buddha); the common meaning in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]. Used absolutely: °budhyati (v.l. °buddhati) Mahāvyutpatti 6907; fut. °bhotsyate Mahāvyutpatti 6905; ppp. °buddho bhagavān Lalitavistara 350.15; gdve. °boddha- vyam one ought to become enlightened Mahāvastu i.8.13; 229.10; [Page059-a+ 71] ii.133.11. Much more often with ‘cognate’ acc., regularly anuttarāṃ samyaksaṃbodhim, unto supreme perfect en- lightenment, the subject being a Buddha or other person: °budhyate Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 159.4; Lalitavistara 85.11; opt. °budhyeyam Sukhāvatīvyūha 11.10—11; °buddheyam Sādhanamālā 225.8; fut. °bhotsyasi Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 216.7; 220.7; °se Lalitavistara 39.4—5; °sye (1 sg.) Avadāna-śataka i.171.15; °syante Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 207.2; 221.8; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 97.3; °budhiṣyam (sic!) Mahāvastu ii.265.6; °buddhiṣyati Mahāvastu ii.313.11; °ṣyasi ii.400.14; °ṣyāmi ii.314.16; aor. °buddhe Mahāvastu ii.285.3; ppp. °buddha, still with acc. of complement (anuttarāṃ samyak°), °buddho Mahāvastu i.229.11; ii.133.12; °buddho bhaviṣyati Kāraṇḍavvūha 37.25; °buddhaḥ with complement bodhim Mahāvyutpatti 6906; saṃbodhim an-abhisaṃbuddho Mahāvastu ii.136.14; (on the same ppp. in passive sense see below;) ger. °buddhitvā (anutta- rāṃ samvak°) Mahāvastu iii.111.17; 272.18; 349.6; °bodhitvā Mahāvastu i.312.18; ii.348.15 (here v.l. °buddhitvā); inf. °boddhu- kāmena Samādhirājasūtra 8.1; instead of acc., loc. of same comple- ment, opt. °buddheyaṃ (anuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau) Lalitavistara 38.18, and ppp. °buddhaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 6355; the pres. °budhy- ate, the ppp., and the gdve., are also used passively, subject being anuttarā samyaksaṃbodhiḥ, and the person put in the instr.: Vajracchedikā 37.8—9 (tathāgatena…) an°rā samy°dhir abhisaṃbuddhā, supreme enlightenment was attained, realized; so also Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 218.11—12; Lalitavistara 377.2; Divyāvadāna 393.9; pres. °budhyate Vajracchedikā 41.19; gdve. °boddhavyā Kāraṇḍavvūha 18.18; note also the [compound] abhisaṃbuddha-bodhis (tathā- gataḥ) Lalitavistara 377.1, the T. having attained enlightenment; (2) the verb is however also used (as in the isolated Sanskrit occurrence noted above) in the sense of learns thoroughly, becomes skilled in, comprehends perfectly: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 210.3—4 asmābhir…tathāgatajñāne abhisaṃboddhavye (loc. abs.), when the T. knowledge ought to have been realized (thoroly learned) by us; Ud xviii.18 (kāyaṃ) marīcidhar- maṃ °budhānaḥ (so oldest ms., with Pali Dhammapada (Pali) 46; later mss. paribudhya caiva, see paribudhyati), learning to know (realizing) the body as having the nature of a mirage; Lalitavistara 263.21 nāsau mārgaḥ śakya evaṃ…°boddhum, that Way cannot be realized (made the object of enlightened understanding) in this manner; Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 22b.5 kaccid evaṃ- rūpaṃ sthānam abhisaṃbhotsyase? abhisaṃbhotsye, you will learn perfectly such-and-such a point (of duty), won't you? I will; (3) when the subject is dharma, and perhaps in some other cases, it may not be clear whether the verb means understands or illumines, makes clear; in Mahāvastu iii.314.1 dharmaḥ abhisaṃbuddho (said by the Buddha shortly after his enlightenment) probably means the Law that I have perfectly comprehended, but possibly made clear (to myself); in Mahāvastu iii.331.10, 14 tathāgatenāryasmiṃ dharmavinaye madhyamā pratipadā abhisaṃbuddhā, apparently the middle course of conduct, perfectly illumined (made clear) by the T. in the noble dharma (i.e. sūtras) and vinaya; Vajracchedikā 32.13 yas tathāgatena dharmo 'bhisaṃbuddho deśito nidhyāto; Vajracchedikā 37.11—12 yaś ca…tathāgatena dharmo 'bhisambuddho deśto vā, realized (? made clear) or taught; and (4) we even find, in a few curious passages in Vajracchedikā, the complement anuttarāṃ (or °rā) samyaksaṃbodhim (or °dhir), as in (1) above, with dharmaḥ…abhisaṃ- buddhaḥ; the precise meaning is not too clear: Vajracchedikā 36.8—9 asti sa kaścid dharmo yas tathāgatena dīpaṃkarasya… antikād anuttarāṃ samy° °bodhim abhisaṃbuddhaḥ (repeated below), is there any principle which has been realized (comprehended? made clear?), unto supreme perfect enlightenment, by the T. (taking it) from D.? (the translation(s) in [Sacred Books of the East] 49 pt. 2, p. 132 is very loose); Vajracchedikā 37.10—11 nāsti… dharmo yas tathāgatenānuttarāṃ samy° °bodhim °bud- dhaḥ: and with nom. of complement, Vajracchedikā 24.2—3 asti sa kaś- cid dharmo yas tathāgatenānuttarā samy° °bodhir ity abhi- saṃbuddhaḥ,…any principle which was realized as (?)… ([Sacred Books of the East] 49 pt. 2, p. 118 known under the name of); perhaps the nom. of the complement (apparently isolated) is a corruption for the acc., used at least twice in such a phrase.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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