The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1418 page)

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Mah
bodhi-va
sa
(‘the great bodhi-tree chronicle’)
.

Buddhist work which relates the story of the
bo(dhi)
tree under which the
Buddha
attained enlightenment. It is attributed to Upatissa, in
c.
11th cent. CE.

 
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Mah
brahm
(‘Great Brahm
’)
.

Buddhist name for the creator deity of the Hindu religion, as known to the Buddhists of the 6th cent. BCE. According to the
brahmans
, the world was created by the Great Brahm
, and he was conceived of as a personal, masculine deity: the ‘Great Brahm
’ (
Mah
brahm
), the ‘Supreme One’ (
Abhibh
), the ‘Unconquered’ (
Anabhibh
to
), the ‘Ruler’ (
Vasavatti
), the ‘Overlord’ (
Issaro
), the ‘Maker’ (
Katt
), the ‘Creator’ (
Nimm
t
), the ‘Greatest’ (
Se
ho
), the ‘Assigner’ (
Sañjit
), the ‘most Ancient’ (
Vas
), the ‘Father of all that are born and are to be born’ (
Pit
-bh
tabhavy
na