# बोधिमण्ड (bodhimaṇḍa)

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बोधिमण्ड (bodhimaṇḍa) is a Sanskrit word meaning the seat of wisdom, seat of knowledge.

- **SLP1:** `boDimaRqa`  **IAST:** bodhimaṇḍa  **Devanagari:** बोधिमण्ड
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhima%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Da
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/bodhimanda/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Other (2 definitions)
- the seat of wisdom  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 734,3] बोधि (bodhi) — मण्ड (—maṇḍa) m. or n. (?) seat of wisdom ( N. of the seats which were said to have risen out of the earth under 4 successive trees where Gautama Buddha attained to perfect wisdom), Monier-Williams’ Buddhism in its connexion with Brāhmaṇism and Hindūism: and in its contrast with Christianity (Title) 232 ( cf. next). [ ID=145892 ]
- seat of knowledge  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > बोधिमण्ड (bodhimaṇḍa) [Printed book page 198-2 ] बोधिमण्ड (bodhimaṇḍa) bodhi-maṇḍa, n. (?) seat of knowledge, which is siad to have risen from the earth in the shadow of the tree under which Buddha obtained perfect enlightenment; -maṇḍala, n. place where Buddha obtained complete enlightenment; -sattva, m. (whose nature is knowledge), Buddhist saint in the last stage before attaining to complete knowledge or Buddhahood. [ ID=12938 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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