As they thus went away, the Bodhisattva arose and walked (after them).
Then the Bodhisattva said, “I will deliver the king from this snake.”
Have you not heard the story of the adorable Bodhisattva in his former birth as a boar?
Have I in my delusion eaten an incarnation of a Bodhisattva?
Miroku, too, is frequently to be seen, but Miroku is not yet a Buddha but only Bodhisattva.
He praised the Bodhisattva again, saying: 'Excellent, excellent!'
One time the Bodhisattva, it is said, lived in the forest as a ruru-deer.
In that forest the Bodhisattva lived, it is said, a chief of a troop of monkeys.
One time the Bodhisattva, it is said, was an ascetic who had forsaken the world.
The Bodhisattva answered: 'Hear then, great prince, for what reason I urged you.
1828, from Sanskrit, literally "one whose essence is perfect knowledge," from bodhi "perfect knowledge" (see Buddha) + sattva "reality, being."
