The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature c8.s8.13

c8.s8.13

The word pravicaya has been variously translated as “examination,” “research,” “investigation,” “study,” “discernment,” “discrimination,” “le tri,” “das Nachdenken,” etc. The form vicaya is also found (M. S. Al., 144.10). The form pravicinoti occurs in the Da. Bhū. (22.18), and pravicita in the Mtu. (ii, 346.3), which also speaks of Buddha’s loka-pravicaya (ii, 290.3). T. W. Rhys Davids and W. Stede translate vicaya as “investigation”, which seems to be a suitable rendering (Pāli Dictionary).