praBaMkara
prabhaṃkara , in vss ( m.c. ) prabhakara, once prabhāṃkara ( cf. Skt. and BHS prabhākara , in Skt. said of sun and moon; = Pali pabhaṃkara, often ep. of Buddha; MIndic aṃ for āṃ), ( 1 ) light-making, light-maker : candrāditya prabhaṃkarā prabhakarā khadyotake no name LV 120.11 ( vs ), the moon and sun, makers of light, O maker of light (Buddha) ! would not bow down to a firefly ; prabhāṃkaro Mv i.296.11 , of the moon; fig. , (sarve ca te, sc. sattvāḥ, human beings … ) prabhaṃkarā bhontu paraspareṇa Suv 40.11 ( vs ), shall give light ( i.e. help, or spiritual illumination) to one another ; esp. (as in Pali ) ep. of Buddhas, SP 301.4 ; LV 363.9 ; 424.2 ; 438.1 (prajñājñāna-°raḥ); Mv i.232.19 ( vs ; text prabhaṃkaraṃ, v.l. prabhak°, better metr. ; of Dīpaṃkara); ii.353.2 = iii.277.5 ; ii.389.5 ; RP 5.7 ; Sukh 74.1 ; Gv 391.26 ; as name of a supernatural ray emitted by Bodhisattvas, Śikṣ 334.1 ; ( 2 ) n. of two former Buddhas: Mv i.136.17 ; iii.231.4 ; ( 3 ) n. of two yakṣas: Māy 34 ; 77 . Cf. niṣprabhaṃkara .