In Hinduism

Shaiva philosophy

Source: Google Books: Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Tantric Interlocutors

Bodhamaya (बोधमय) or Bodhamātra refers to “pure understanding”, according to Somānanda’s Śivadṛṣṭi verse 1.26-29.—Accordingly, “If you object by asking how there can be understanding in the absence of the intellect, the intellect being produced from matter and not connected to it, (we reply:) that is the intellect that exists in the aparā condition. By contrast, the subtle, all-pervasive (power of) cognition, which is pure understanding [i.e., bodhamaya], is eternally Śiva’s natural state. It is not the same as that of the Naiyāyikas and others, because they only contend that material knowledge is a quality of the (individual) self, not of the supreme knower. Of course, the same argument clearly should apply to (the power of) will”.

Note: Utpaladeva glosses Bodhamaya with “pure understanding” (Bodhamātra).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bodhamaya (बोधमय).—[adjective] consisting of knowledge.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bodhamaya (बोधमय):—[=bodha-maya] [from bodha > budh] mf(ī)n. consisting of (pure) knowledge, [Subhāṣitāvali]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bodhamaya in German

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Partial matches: Bodha, Maya.

Full-text: Bodhamatra, Sutaka.

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