India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.9

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s1.9

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c8.s1.9

A degraded Brāhmaṇa was called *ku-Brahmaḥ* (V.4.105), while a Brāhmaṇa pre-eminent in his duties (*dharma*) *mahā-Brahmaḥ* (V.4.105). The Pāli texts take Mahā-Brahmā to mean a super-Brāhmaṇa, one with realised soul. The *Mahānārada-kassapa Jātaka* speaks of Bodhisattva Nārada as being the Mahā-Brahmā (Great Brahmā) at a particular epoch (*Jāt.* VI.242). The *Mātaṅga Jātaka* explicitly refers to the superior position of a Mahā-Brahmā (*Jāt.* IV.377; cf. also *Jāt.* No. 254).

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Jātaka — Pāli
Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit