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    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 81, col. 3.
    amitābha m. pl. ‘of unmeasured splendour’, N. of certain deities in the eighth Manvantara, VP.
    ☞ p. 81, col. 3.
    amitābha m. sg. = amitāyus. (see, MWB. 183 &c.)

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 374.
    amitābha (von a° + ābhā) von unermesslichem Glanze:

    1) eine Klasse von Göttern VP. 262. 267.

    — 2) N. eines Dhyānibuddha BURN. Intr. 100. u.s.w. Lot. de la b. l. 113. 251. WEBER, Lit. 260. 266, N. 1.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 96, col. 3.
    amitābha m. N.pr.

    — 1) Pl. einer Klasse von Göttern im 8ten Manvantara VP. 3,2,15.

    — 2) eines Dhyānibuddha.

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 63, col. 2.
    Amitābha, (1) n. of the Buddha who presides over

    the western paradise Sukhāvatī (lokadhātu); also known

    as Amitāyu(s), Amitaprabha, Amitanātha, and doubt-

    less intended by the Mmk names Amitāyu(rjñāna)-

    viniścayarājendra (or the like), even tho he is once

    depicted separately in a painting centering about that

    personage (Mmk 305.12--13, cf. 304.25). See these names

    separately. The two commonest names are Amitābha and

    Amitāyus, and they are as a rule quite equivalent and

    interchangeable; see notably Sukh 62.13--14; 95.15 and 20.

    Often Sukhāvatī is mentioned with him. He is the fourth

    of the ‘transcendent’ Buddhas, Dharmas 3; Mvy 85. Other

    occurrences: Suv 2.5; Bhad 49, 57, 59, 62; Śikṣ 175.6;

    Kv 18.7; 21.8 etc.; Mmk 42.16; 426.7; Gv 82.5; Laṅk

    283.7; Sukh 1.6; 28.10 etc.; Sādh 16.10 etc.; (2) n. of a

    Bodhisattva: Gv 442.22 (one of a long list, and hardly

    to be identified with the Buddha A.).