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Amitābha , ( 1 ) n. of the Buddha who presides over the western paradise Sukhāvatī (lokadhātu); also known as Amitāyu(s), Amitaprabha, Amitanātha , and doubtless 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. ).