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Gotama

British  
/ ˈɡəʊtəmə /

noun

  1. the Pali form of the name Gautama

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Govinda once spent a rest period with some other monks in the pleasure grove which Kamala, the courtesan, had once presented to the followers of Gotama.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Whisk—and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In such a manner did that rumor, that happy report of Gotama the Buddha, the wise man from the race of Sakya, travel through the country.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

He sat all that day under the mango tree, thinking of his father, thinking of Govinda, thinking of Gotama.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Not long afterwards another party of monks arrived and then another, and the monks as well as most of the other travellers talked of nothing but Gotama and his approaching death.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

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