kumAraBUta
kumāra-bhūta , adj. , while still a youth; remaining a youth ; a stock epithet of Mañjuśrī , q.v. , who is perennially young: SP 7.8—9 ; 260.16 ; 275.1 ff. ; Mvy 650 ; but also of others, esp. Bodhisattvas, Mvy 693—5, 698—9 , and cf. 883 te ca bodhisattvā … bhūyastvena sarve kumārabhūtāḥ; also of Buddhas, with reference to the period before their enlightenment, SP 19.2 ; 160.9 ; 311.2 (here of Śākyamuni); and even of an ordinary human being, Jīvaka, Divy 270.12, 20 ; 506.8 ff. ; but this is probably based on a misunderstanding and consequent re-formation of next, q.v.