The History of Buddhist Thought c21.9

c21.9

¹ The Sanskrit form has no doubt been formed from the Pāli or Prākrit bodhisatta, which is ambiguous. It may mean a “being (sattva) of enlightenment”; but it may also mean “attached (sakta) to enlightenment”. The latter interpretation is adopted by the commentator of Ang., i, 258, and is more probably the original one. But the Sarvāstivādins understood it in the other way, as the later Pāli authors did.