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Arhat, Arahat|ˈɑːhæt, ˈærəhæt|
Also with small initial letter.
[a. Skr. arhat adj., deserving. Arahat is the Pali form.]
A Buddhist saint of the highest rank. Hence ˈAr(a)hat-ship, the state of an Arhat.
[1850R. S. Hardy Eastern Monachism xxii. 282 To say that any one has ‘seen nirwána’, is to say that he has become a rahat... There are some persons who obtain the rahatship instantaneously.] 1870Max Müller tr. Buddha's Dhammapada in Buddhagosha's Parables p. cix, ‘Arhat’, the venerable, the perfect, who has reached the highest stage that can be reached, and from which Nirvâna is perceived. Ibid. p. lxxxi, Ridding themselves of lust by the wisdom which Arhat-ship confers. 1877T. W. R. Davids Buddhism 84 The Buddhist Arahats or saints. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 226/1 The central point of primitive Buddhism was the doctrine of ‘Arahatship’. 1912H. G. Rawlinson Bactria vii. 111 The Siamese tradition of Menander's attainment to Arhatship. 1956Toynbee Hist. Approach Relig. vi. 84 The arhat, as the Hinayanian philosopher is called in the Buddhist terminology. |