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འཇིགས་བྱེད་སྦྱིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • འཇིགས་བྱེད་སྦྱིན།

  • ’jigs byed sbyin
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  • འཇིགས་བྱེད་སྦྱིན།
  • ’jigs byed sbyin
Definition in this text:

The son of Ajātaśatru according to the Tibetan translation of this sūtra. Unfortunately, the corresponding Sanskrit of this portion of the text is not extant. In Pāli Buddhist literature, Ajātaśatru’s son is named Udāyibhadda, which does not seem to correspond well to this Tibetan translation. In the Lalitavistara, ’jigs byed is attested for the name Bhayaṃkara, but there it refers to one of attendants of Māra. It is also attested as a translation for Bhairava in some Buddhist texts. It is common for sbyin to translate the form datta, which is a common ending in names. Taken together here this gives us Bhairavadatta or Bhayaṃkaradatta. The former is an attested name in India, but it is too tenuous to use it here.