Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- देहधारण
- Transliteration
- dehadhāraṇ
- Rejected alternatives
- अवतार, बोधिसत्त्वाचा पुनर्जन्म
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER अवतार (Vitthal/Krishna avatar-descent, central to Warkari devotional theology). Also guard against a subtler false-friend for readers shaped by Navayana Buddhism: the Bodhisattva ideal of repeatedly postponing one’s own liberation to be reborn for the sake of helping other beings, an image Ambedkar himself drew on. Christ’s incarnation is a one-time, unique act of the eternal, uncreated Son — not one more compassionate rebirth in a series.