mEtreya
Maitreya , ( 1 ) also Maitriya m.c. , and Maitraka, Maitra-nātha, °nāman , and perh. Maitrīya , qq.v. ; (= Pali Metteyya), n. of the next Buddha to follow Śākyamuni, predicted by him; has special ep. Ajita , q.v. : SP 3.9 ; 7.4 ff. ; 302.11, 16 ; 307.11 ; 308.1 ; 309.1 ; 310.13 ; 311.1 ; 312.13 ; 315.5 ; 316.12 ; 327.2 ; 329.11 ; 332.5 ; 345.1 ff. ; 478.11 ; Mv i.59.2 ( etc. , see Senartʼs Index ); iii.240.11 ff. ; 243.19 ; 246.16 ; 247.15 ; 330.8 ; LV 2.10 (first of a list of Bodhisattvas); 39.2 ff. ; 422.7, 11 ; 443.7 ; 444.12 ; Mvy 646 (= Tib. byams pa , second in a list, after Avalokiteśvara); Divy 60.25 ff. (prediction of his history); 326.10 (in an earlier existence gave his life for a tigress); Av ii.176.3 ; Suv 117.5 (M°-prabhṛtīnāṃ bodhisattvānāṃ); 157.19 ; 239.6 (here Maitriyo, m.c. ; v.l. Maitrayo); Śikṣ 15.13 etc. ; Dharmas 12 (first of 8 Bodhisattvas); Sukh 2.13 (M°-pūrvaṃgamaiś ca saṃbahulair bodhisattvair); Karmav 71.22 ; Mmk 40.14 ; 62.16 , etc. ; Sādh 20.8 etc. ; as the first in a long list of future Buddhas Gv 441.23 ; as the first of a much shorter list, not over ten, Mv ii.354.17 = iii.279.1 , most of the names being found at the beginning of the Gv list, which is evidently an enormous expansion of an old traditional list; even the order is nearly the same; Maitreya is succeeded by Siṃha , then Pradyota, Ketu (these two are interchanged in the Mv order), Sunetra [Page440-b] (in Mv preceded by Jyotiṃdhara or Jyotīvara , or the like, which Gv lacks), Kusuma and Kusumaśrī (in Mv these two are represented by ‘two Kusumas’), Tiṣya (so Gv , prob. unorig. ; T. regularly precedes P. in lists of past Buddhas; Mv has instead Meru or Maru ), Puṣya ( Mv Puṣpa ); here the Mv list ends. In Mv iii.279.19—20 there follows a reference to the four Buddhas of ‘this bhadrakalpa’, still put in the future; these two lines seem to be a secondary addition of Mv iii.279 , being not found in the parallel ii.355 ; because of them Senart , iii Introd. XXVI note 1 , attributes the whole list to the past, which is scarcely conceivable with a list headed by Maitreya, and is disproved by the Gv parallel; in Gv 456.19 introductory to long chapter on M°, Gv 466.15 ff. , special glorification of him; ( 2 ) n. of a brahmanical gotra ( sg. as n. of various persons in Skt. ): pl. Divy 635.12 .