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his heart as he lay asleep. The brahman minister on guard saw it and cut it off. A drop of blood fell from it upon Bimba Devi's bosom, and he wiped it off with his finger. The queen accused him of an outrage, and V. sentenced him to death. To defend himself he produced the tip of the tongue that he had cut off, which sprang upon the head of V. and brought the Divi Dos (q. v.) upon him and Panduvas, to heal which 8 inches of a leopard's head were cut off with a sword and laid at the kings feet. From the blood spirting from the tongue arose flies, gnats, fleas, and lice.
The Pala-väla-danê gives the same story of his coronation and repudiation of Kuveni and of the Divi Dos. inflicted on him and Paqiluvas. The Nava-graha-mal-baliya gives an account of his sickness and Buddha's command to Kihiräli Deva to protect him. The rituals to heal him are variously described ; see Ata Magula. A Vijayindu-halané relates that V. was the son of Simha-bâhu and Simha-valli. He grew up headstrong and lawless, and way banished from his father's realm. He sailed with 700 followers to Tammanna-tora, where Kuvêni in the form of a bitch seized his men. When V. approached her, her third pap vanished, and she yielded herself to him and surrendered his men. She prepared for them a great feast and created a city and palace. She also created the city of Upatissanuvara, where she made a palace with four entrance-halls called Bhojana-ran-mini-vAsala, Megha-ran-mini-V., Tunga-giri-v., and Cakra-v. Another Vijayindu-halané, after narrating the earlier births of V. and Kuvêni, relates that the ministers of the king, V.'s father, spoke evil of him ; the king sent him away in a rotten ship, and he reached Tammannatota, swimming through the surf to land. Kuvêni took the form of a bitch with red back and eyes, white belly and claws, black hind-legs and head, blue fore-legs, and a golden tail, etc. The Vijayindu-puvata and Lanka-bodhi-vastuva give an account similar in most points to that of the Maha-vamsa. The Visnu-vidiya-kavi, narrating the arrival of V. in Ceylon, states that Vişnu gave him a magic thread to wear, which made him proof against the Yakas; this thread is invoked in Tunu-ruvan-piriltuva. He begot by Kuvêni Jivahatta, who is identified in one legend with Kalu Kumâra, son of V. and Kalu Kiri Mavu or Karandu-bank. His origin from a lion is narrated in Simhalê vistare; his wooing of Kuvêni, in Tilaka-pirivan Thera's Kovul-sandesaya; his repudiation of her, in Kuvêni-asné. For the legend of his and Kuvêni's previous births, see Kuvêni. See further Divi Dos Mala Raja, Panduvas. He is invoked in Pirittuva and Vädi-yak-yadinna.
Vijaya Kumari. A person attacked by Riri Yaka, Vijitta Raja. Father of Mâtalan. See also Vijaya. Vikara Devi. A deity who gave clothes for the torch-rite (see T'orch).
Vikrama-bahu (Vikum-ba). (1) A king, said to have built a temple at Ämbak kê: see Devatar Bandara. (2) A king, on whom see Piriya Devi.
Vimala. Mother of Irandati.
Vina. Malignant magical influences. A V.-küpun-lavi exorcises these from the various divisions of time and space, the parts of the body, etc., invoking Buddhist and other themes. There is a ritual styled V.-vidiya, and poom describing it for exorcism of evil planetary influences, and to cure sanni (fits and similar diseases), dropsy, and debility. Limes are cut and the verses chanted, and Buddha's removal of the pestilenco at Višala is invoked. Limes were brought by the Rşis from the worlds of Nagas, Suras (gods), and
a similar diseaseh. pestilenco at Ods), and
