SAkyamuni
Śākyamuni (= Pali Sak°; see also Śākyasiṃha ), ( 1 ) ep. of the historic Buddha, passim ; as 7th of the ‘seven Buddhas’, beginning with Vipaśyin , Dharmas 6 ; in SP 185.3 he is one of two Buddhas in the northeast, yet is located asyāṃ sahāyāṃ lokadhātau; Gv 419.20 , see also Vairocana , who is identified with Ś. esp. in Gv ; ( 2 ) n. of a former Buddha under whom ‘this’ (historic) Ś. made a praṇidhāna and received a prediction of Buddha-hood: Mv i.1.6 ; 47.13 ff. ; in 57.8 thirty crores of Buddhas of this name were worshipped by, and predicted the Buddhahood of, (the historic) Ś. while he was cakravartin; in LV 172.5 also a former B. of this name, to whom the historic Ś. made a gift; ( 3 ) n. of (presumably) another past Buddha: Mv iii.238.10 ff. ; ( 4 ) n. of still another past Buddha, in the same list as (3), next in line to a Buddha named Yaśottara: Mv iii.240.4 ; 243.9, 10 ; 245.11 ; 247.7 ; 248.14 ; (in the same list, 240.10 , the historic Ś. also names himself;) ( 5 ) n. of a future Buddha, rebirth of a girl who made a praṇidhāna under the historic Ś. and for whom he predicted Buddhahood: Divy 90.5, 28 ; ( 6 ) n. of a future Buddha, rebirth of Vaḍika , similarly predicted by the historic Ś. : Av i.35.3 .