maYjuSrI
Mañjuśrī or °śiri, °śirī , in vss (for alternative forms see prec. items, and Mañjusvara ), n. of a celebrated Bodhisattva, with the stock epithet kumārabhūta: Mvy 650 ; Dharmas 12 ; SP 3.3 ; 7.8 ff. ; 260.16 ff. ; 275.1 ff. ; 386.8 ; 425.3 ; Suv 157.18 ; 239.8 ; Śikṣ 6.12 ; 7.7 , etc. ; Gv 1.11 ; 46.26 ; 260.20 ; 527.22 ff. , etc. ; Sukh 92.10 ; Sādh 92.12 etc. ; in vss often in semi- MIndic forms, as Mañjuśirī SP 8.10 ; 11.9 ; Gv 235.24 ; Bhad 44 ; 55 ; in RP 2.2 listed not among Bodhisattvas but as the first among 60 anupamacitta , q.v. ; in Mmk often in stem-form Mañjuśriya, see § 10.4 ; his regular title kumāra-bhūta has led to curious blend with (Kumāra =) Kārttikeya (= Skanda) in Mmk , Kārttikeya-Mañjuśrī Mmk 33.2, 15 (in the latter, Mañjuśriyasya kumārabhūtasya Kārt°-°śrīr nāma Kumāraḥ anucaraḥ, as attending Mañjuśrī!); 45.12 (to be depicted sitting on a peacock, like Skanda Kārttikeya); this blend [Page415-a] seems to me secondary; a rather different theory in Lalou, Iconographie , 66 ff. , esp. 69.