The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature c8.s3.24
The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature c8.s3.24
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c8.s3.24
The word pāda in the term ṛddhi-pādāḥ has been variously translated as "basis", "mode", "part", "step", "kind", "foot", "way", "stage", "subdivision", etc. H. A. Jäschke translates the Tibetan equivalent rkaṅ-pa as "base, foundation" (Tib. Dicy. 15b). We may translate: "Bases."