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Vāuttara vadimsága
Vabassaidatta (VȚhaspatidatta ) Son of priest Somadatta(4) of Kossambi. He was a friend as well as the chief priest of king Udāyaṇa(2). He was in so much confidence of the the king that he could enter even the harem. Once he developed love with queen Paumāvai(6) and enjoyed sexual intercourse with her. The king caught him red-handed and hanged him after inflicting various injuries on his person. After many a birth and death he will attain liberation in Mahāvideha. See Mahesaradatta for his previous birth.
1. Vip. 25.
Vāila (Vātula) A merchant of Pālaga(6) vilage who attacked Mahāvīra.
1. AvaCu. I. p. 320, Avan 523, AvaM. pp. 296-7, Vis. 1978.
Vāu (Vãyu) A god presiding over constellation Sāi(2),1
1. Jam. 157, 171, 2. Vâu General of the cavalry of Sakka(3).
1. Sth. 404. 3. Vāu (i) Tenth, (ii) eleventh as well as (iii) sixteenth chapter of the seventeenth section of Viyahapannatti.1
1. Bha. 590.
4. Vāu One of the thirty Muhuttas.1
1. Sam. 30, Sur. 47, Jam. 152.
recognised as a
5. Vău A non-Jain sage in the tirtha of Pāsa(1), Patteyabuddha.?
1. Risi 30, Risi (Sangrahani).
Vāukumāra (Váyukumāra ). A class of the Bhavanaväsi gcds. They have ninety-six lakhs of abodes. They have two lords : Velamba(1) and Pabhamjana(3). Each of these gods has four Logapālas : Kāla(7), Mahākāla(8), Amjana(5) and Rittha(4).3 The Văukumāra gods and goddesses are under Logapāla Soma(1) of Sakka(3). 1. Praj, 28, Anu. 122, Jiv. 114, 115, 3. Bha. 169, Sea 256. Utt. 36. 204.
4. Bha, 165, See also Bha. 180, 614. 2. Sam. 96.
Váuttaravadimsaga (Vatottarāvatmsaka) A celestial abode where the maximum span of life of gods is five Sägaropama years. They breathe once in five fortnights and have desire for food once in five thousand years. It is just like Vāya(2).
1. Sam. 5.
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