pUrvapreta
pūrva-preta , m. (= Pali pubbapeta, wrongly defined PTSD as = peta; it means spirit of an ancestor , or at least of a deceased member of oneʼs family ; this is clear from DN comm. i.90.28 , on i.8.2 , atīte ñāti-kathā, as gloss on pubbapetakathā; and Pv comm. 17.26—27 pubbe keci pitaro, gloss on i.4.1 pubbe pete), spirit of an ancestor or deceased member of the family ; as object of worship: pūrvapeta-pūjakaṃ tat kulaṃ (in which the Bodhisattva is to be reborn in his last existence) LV 24.10 (replaced in same passage Mv i.198.2 by pūrvapitṛpūjakaṃ, in Mv ii.1.13 by pūrvamitrapūjakaṃ; the latter may be an error, mitra for pitṛ); in a list of venerable persons and benefactors, a cliché in which all are contrasted unfavorably with the Buddha, Divy 47.13 ; 97.16 ; Av i.149.3 etc.