Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- प्रभु
- Transliteration
- probhu
- Rejected alternatives
- बुरहा/बर'ऐ titles reserved for Bathoubwrai and Kherai-pantheon elder-deities, never use for Christ
Lord
CRITICAL: प्रभु (a Sanskrit/Assamese loan already used in the Bodo Bible) is preferred specifically because it is not one of the honorific elder-titles (बर’ऐ/बुरहा, ‘great old one’) applied to Bathoubwrai and other Kherai-pantheon deities. Using a native honorific here would risk placing Christ inside the existing Bathou pantheon as one great elder-spirit among several rather than the exclusive, supreme Lord Romans 10:9 confesses.