search `buddha' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "buddha" [1]

p.p.{a-stem}

1.known;

2.awakened;

3.observed;

4.enlightened;

5.expanded

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meanings of "buddha" [2]

m.{a-stem}

1.a wise or learned man;

2.(with Buddhists) a wise or enlightened person who, by perfect knowledge of the truth, is absolved from all existence, and who reveals to the world the method of obtaining the nirvaaNa or final emancipation before obtaining it himself;

3.'the enlightened', name of zaakyasimha, the celebrated founder of the bauddha religion;

4.the supreme soul

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meanings of "buddha" [3]

n.{a-stem}

1.knowledge

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