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SAYA III
kerisa-viuvvanāl Camara2 kiriya3 jān'' itthis nagara pālār ya ahivai® indiya' parisālo taiyammi sae das' uddesā.
1. KERISA-VIUVVAŅĀ (MoyĀ).
1 In the sanctuary Nandaņa near Moyā Aggibhūi and Vāubhūi, resp. the second and third Goyama, question Mv. on the following topic: what like (keris a) are the divine faculties (iddhi), esp. the faculty of transformation (v i uvua nā; two similes for which see the comm.) of the different Lords of the gods (inda), their fellow-gods of princely rank (sāmāniya), their thirty-three principal officials (tāyattīsiya), their guardians of the cardinal points (logapāla : 'margrave', Jacobi) and their principal queens (aggamahisī devī). The indas of the Asurakumāras up to the Vemāņiyas of the Accuya heaven are specified as follows:
a (153a) Camara.—The questioner, Aggibhūi, afterwards informs Vāubhūi of My.'s statements on Camara; Vāubhūi, being sceptical, asks and obtains My.'s confirmation, whereupon Aggibhūi questions Mv. on the southern gods, Vāubhūi on the northern gods.
(158b) Bali, Dharaṇa, other Lords up to those of the Joisiyas, Sakka.
• (1586) After a death-fast the monk Tisaya is reborn as a sāmāniya of Sakka.
(159b) Īsāņa. € (159b) The monk Kurudattaputta becomes a sāmāņiya of
Isāņa.
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