Dear Friends,
I have just come across a curious passage in the introduction to a translation of the Lotus Sutra, by Leon Hurvitz:
"Without much doubt,
tathāgata is a non-Indic word refurbished to have an Indic appearance long after it had come into current use among India's Buddhists."
I'm wondering if anyone here has any insight on the origin of this word as described in this quote - is the implication that it came from Proto-Indo-European?