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tiṣyeṃ

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Meaning:	Name of a former Buddha
Semantic field:	personal name
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	tiṣye
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. tiṣya-, Skt. Tiṣya-
Lexeme variants:	tiṣyeṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	tiṣye
voc
acc	tiṣyeṃ, tiyśiṃ
gen	tiṣyentse
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• tiṣye m

  	sg
  nom	tiṣye
  acc	tiṣyeṃ, tiyśiṃ
  gen	tiṣyentse

Commentary

This is based on an adjective meaning literally "born under the asterism Terminalia, auspicious" and was frequent as name of men in Buddhism (cf. Monier-Williams 1899: 448,3). In particular, it was the name of a former Buddha, cf. Edgerton 1953: 254,1.

Occurrences

tiṣyeṃ

1

THT 297.a a4

wantoś waṇe lyakāsta a4

tiṣyeṃ

poyśi(ṃ) : mantaṃtā pasi

Bibliography

Edgerton 1953

Edgerton, Franklin. 1953. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Monier-Williams 1899

Monier-Williams, Monier. 1899. A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. new edition, greatly enlarged and improved, London: Clarendon Press (several reprints).