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Gothabha (Gostūpa) A mountain-residence of Velamdharaṇāgarāya gods at a distance of forty-two thousand yojanas to the east of Jambuddiva in the Lavaṇa ocean. God Gothūbha presides over it. The distance between its western end and the western end of mount Meru measures ninety-seven thousand yojanas.1
1. Sth. 305, Sam. 17, Jiv. 159, Bha. 116. 2. Sam. 97.
1. Gothūbhā (Gostūpā) A place situated on the southwestern Raikaraga mountain. It is the capital of Navamiyā(3) a queen of Sakka(3)
1. Sth. 307.
2. Gothübhā A lotus-pond (puskariņi) on the western Amjaņaga(1) mountain in the Namdisara(1) island.
1. Sth. 307, Jiv. 183.
Godattā A wife of Cakkavatti Bambhadatta.(1).
1. Uttn. p. 379.
Godāsa One of the four disciples of Bhaddabāhu.(1). He belonged to the Kásaya gotra.1
1. Kalp (Therāvali). 7. KalpV. p. 255.
1. Godāsagana
1. Sth. 680.
One of the nine groups of monks under Mahävira.?
2. Godāsagana A monastic line originating from preceptor Godāsa.. It had four branches. Tāmalittiā, Kodivarisiyā, Pomdavaddhasiya, and Dāsīkhabbadiyā.
1. Kalp ( Therāvali). 7, KalpV. p. 255.
Godha An Apāriya (non-Aryan) country and its inhabitants.1
1. Praj. 37.
Gopālaa (Gopālaka) Son of king Pajjoya of Ujjeņi. He had renounced the world and taken to asceticism.1
1. AvaCu. II. p. 189.
Gobahula A Brahmin of the Saravana settlement. In his cow-shed Gosala was born.
1. Bha. 540, AvaN. 474, AvaCu. I. p. 282; AvaM. p. 276, AvaH. p. 199.
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