The corpus record — Pali

bhante

Bhante

voc. of polite address: Sir, venerable Sir, used like bhadante. Either abs. as voc.: Vin.i.76 ; DN.ii.154 , DN.ii.283 ; Ja.ii.111 ; Ja.iii.46 ; Mil.19 ; or with another voc.: Mil.25 ; or with other oblique cases, as with nom. DN.i.179 ; Dhp-a.i.62 . with gen. DN.i.179 . would correspond either to Sk

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Udana 213 · 106.25/10k
Digha Nikaya 873 · 60.63/10k
Sutta Nipata 10 · 4.96/10k
Itivuttaka 3 · 2.59/10k

What it meant — PTS Pali–English Dictionary

voc. of polite address: Sir, venerable Sir, used like bhadante. Either abs. as voc.: Vin.i.76; DN.ii.154, DN.ii.283; Ja.ii.111; Ja.iii.46; Mil.19; or with another voc.: Mil.25; or with other oblique cases, as with nom. DN.i.179; Dhp-a.i.62. with gen. DN.i.179.

would correspond either to Sk. *bhavantaḥ (with ending ˚e as Māgadhism for ˚aḥ) = bhavān, or to P bhadanta. In both cases we have a contraction. The explⁿ bhante = bhadante (bhadantaḥ) is advocated by Pischel, Prk. Gr. §§ 165, 366^b, intimated also by Weber Bhagavatī 156 n. 3 (unable to explain-e); the explⁿ bhante = bhavantah (see bhavaṃ) by Geiger, Pali Grammar § 98#3 hinted at by Weber loc. cit. (bhavantaḥ = bhagavantaḥ).

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