puruzadamyasAraTi
puruṣa-damya-sārathi (= Pali purisa-damma-sā°; expl. Vism. 207.22 ff. essentially as here interpreted), charioteer (driver, tamer, controller) of human ones-that-need-to-be-tamed (= trained religiously; as Vism. indicates, dam = vi-nī, discipline ); the figure clearly refers to taming animals, particularly horses, and indeed is no doubt directly based on Pali assa-damma-sārathi, q.v. in CPD ; cf. such expressions as puruṣājāneya (see s.v. ājāneya ), noble steed of a man . Ep. of a Buddha, or a Bodhisattva just before his attainment of Buddhahood. Often misunderstood; further evidence supporting the interpretation here given will be found below. Tib. (on Mvy 10 , LV 3.4 etc. ) skyes bu ḥdul baḥi ( of human [to-be-] tamed ones , more lit. of [to-be-] tamed men ) kha lo (b)sgyur ba ( helm-governor = charioteer ). In Tocharian yātäṣlyes yāpy ā(śa)nt , leader of one to be tamed (omitting puruṣa; yāpy is uncertain, possibly helm as in Tib. ). Regularly in cliché listing characteristics of a Buddha: SP 17.11 ; 65.6 ; 144.6 ; 156.4 ; LV 3.4 ; Mvy 10 ; Mv i.38.12 ; 238.15 ; 330.2 ; 331.1 ; 332.4 ; 335.16 ; Divy 54.13 etc. ; Av i.65.12 etc. ; Suv 168.10 ; in Mv i.4.9 (read with mss. , and print the sentence as an āryā vs , not prose as in Senart ) puruṣasiṃhasārathinā ( Senart em. puruṣadamya°), controller of lions of men , evidently meant as a much stronger variant of the usual term, but incidentally confirms our interpretation of the latter; so also does the epithet puruṣadamyasārathinā in another formulaic series of epithets applied to the Bodhisattva just before his enlightenment, in which several preceding epithets compare him to animals, such as puruṣarṣabheṇa, puruṣasiṃhena: LV 350.12 ; Mv i.229.9 ; ii.133.9 ; 284.19 ; 415.21 ; in less formulaic passages LV 428.5 ; abstr. °sārathi-tā, state of being … , meaning the state of Buddhahood which Bodhisattvas are to attain: Mv ii.260.11 ; 261.12 .