Badanta · adjective · bhadanta 1
bhadanta (= Pali id. , see below; used also in Skt. as address to Buddhist monks; AMg. bhayanta, app. in general application), venerable, reverend person ; in Pali voc. °ta or °te, other forms as from stem °ta, see Childers ; sometimes written in Pali bhaddanta, °te, etc. ; acc. to PTSD derived from phrase bhadraṃ te ( Skt. ), a theory app. accepted by Lévi , since he translates ( p. 108 ) Karmav 26.12 bhadanta (to Buddha) by la paix sur toi ; in BHS often, but by no means always, refers to Buddha; °te, voc. , Mv ii.194.11 (not to Buddha); so mss. in i.306.2, 4 ( vss ), addressed to a plurality, Senart em. °ta, which seems favored by meter (which however is difficult, text being corrupt); °ta, voc. , addressed to Buddha, Mv iii.197.17 ; 198.1 ; acc. to Kernʼs SP Preface p. viii , often in Kashgar rec. for bhagavan of Nep. ; Karmav 26.12 ; Bhīk 3a.3 etc. ; Av i.2.15 etc. ; to others, Divy 15.17 ff. (an elder); Bhīk 3b.4 (Ānanda); Bbh 153.14 (a bodhisattva); other than voc. forms, °taḥ, nom. , Mvy 9220 ; Av i.244.8 ; °taṃ, acc. , Divy 506.4 ; Jm 19.21 ; °tena Jm 106.18 ; °tasya Av i.263.4 .
venerable; reverend. (masculine) a venerable person
Bhadanta and Bhaddanta [a secondary adjective formation from address bhaddaṃ (= bhadraṃ) te "hail to thee," cf. "bhaddaṃ vo" under bhadda 1] venerable, reverend. {498} Mostly in vocative as address "Sir, holy father" etc., to men of the Order. Vocative singular bhadante S I 216 (v.l. bhaddante); vocative plural bhadantā Dhp-a III 414. — A contracted form of bhadante is bhante (q.v.). Note: In case of bhadanta being the correspondant of Sanskrit bhavanta (for bhavān) we would suppose the change v > d and account for dd on grounds of popular analogy after bhadda. See bhante. The plural nominative from bhadantā is formed after bhadante, which was felt as a vocative of an a-stem with -e for -a as in Māgadhī Prākrit.
(masc, masc) venerable; reverend venerable person Construction: √bhad + anta
(adj, adj) venerable, reverend Construction: √bhad + anta