bujjhati : [budh + ya] knows; understands; perceives; is awake.
Bujjhati [budh, y -- formation, corresp. to Sk. budhyate for the usual bodhate. The sense is that of a Med., but is also used as Act. with acc. of object, e. g. saccāni bujjhi he recognised the truths Vism 209. -- The Dhtp (414) and Dhtm (652) explain budh by "avagamane" (understanding, see ogamana), Dhtm (242) also by "bodhane" (awakening). Bdhgh's expln of the meaning is "kilesa -- santāna -- niddāya uṭṭhahati cattāri vā ariyasaccāni paṭivijjhati Nibbānam eva vā sacchikaroti" DhsA 217, cp. trsln at Expos. 294 "to rise from the slumber of the continuum of the lower nature, or a penetrating the Ariyan Truths, or a realizing Nibbāna"] to be awake, to be enlightened in (acc.), to perceive, to know, recognise, understand D ii.249; S i.74, 198; Dh 136, 286; Th 1, 146; Jiii.331; iv.49, 425; Miln 165, 348 (pot. bujjheyya); Dpvs i.14 (with gen.) KhA 219 (so attho sukhaŋ b.). 3rd pl. bujjhare Th 2, 453; Bu ii.183. imper.bujjhassu Bu ii.183. <-> fut. bujjhissati Bu ii.65; aor. abujjhi Bu ii.211, and bujjhi J iv.425; Vism 209; pret. 3rd sg. abujjhatha Bu vii.22. -- ppr.bujjhamāna Sn 395; Bu vii.22; DhA i.93. -- pp. buddha (q. v.). -- Caus. I. bodheti (q. v.). -- Caus. II. bujjhāpeti to lead to knowledge or recognition Ji.407. Two infinitives formed fr. bodh, but belonging to budh are bodhuŋ J v.341, and boddhuŋ Th 1, 167.
bujjhati: 覺{pp. buddha}