avalokiteśvara

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

avalokiteśvara m. N. of a Bodhi-sattva, worshipped by the northern Buddhists.

Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

avalokiteśvara (a° + īśvara) m. N. pr. eines Bodhisattva, der bei den nördlichen Buddhisten im höchsten Ansehen steht, BURN. Intr. 115. 117. 120. 220. 222. 224. 226 und ebend. N. 1. 290. 539. 542. 619. Lot. de la b. l. 261. fgg. 301. 352. 428.

Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

☞ vol. 1, p. 125, col. 3.

avalokiteśvara m. N.pr. eines Bodhisattva KĀD. 234,21. ( āryāva° zu lesen).

Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

☞ p. 74, col. 2.

Avalokiteśvara (on the name cf. Mironov, JRAS

1927.241 ff., suggesting that the original form was Avalo-

kita-svara), n. of a celebrated Bodhisattva: first in lists

of Bodhisattvas, SP 3.4; Mvy 645; cf. also Kv 1.2; lives

on Mt. Potalaka Gv 208.8; subject of ch. 24 of SP (named

438.4 ff.), where he has the epithet Samantamukha,

q.v.; other occurrences Śikṣ 286.7; Samādh p. 36 l. 1;

Kv i.16; 8.19 etc.; Mmk 62.24 etc.; Sukh 52.4; 56.7--8;

Sādh 42.10 etc.