Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c7.s1.t3.28

c7.s1.t3.28

Here Brahmanical speculation anticipates Buddhism in diction as well as in thought. Language even now begins to make use of those phrases, which have received at a later time from the lips of Buddha’s followers, their established currency as an expression of the tenets of the Buddhist faith. When he who has come to know the Âtman, is mentioned in the “Brâhmana of the hundred paths,” as delivered, the word then used for “knowing” is that word (pratibuddha) which also signifies “awaking,” the word which the Buddhists are accustomed to use, when they describe how Buddha has in a solemn hour under the Açvattha tree gained the knowledge of the delivering truth, or is awake to the delivering truth: the same word from which also the name “Buddha,” i.e., “the knowing,” “the awake,” is derived.