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arhat or arahant

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:14 am
by badscooter
Is it arhat or arahant???? I've seen it both ways and don't know why... Is there a difference? If not why is there different spellings?

thanks
maha metta

Re: arhat or arahant

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:20 am
by BlackBird
arhat is Sanskrit
arahant is Pali.

In common Theravadin parlance we use arahant, since pali is the language of Theravada.

Re: arhat or arahant

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:36 am
by badscooter
Thanks