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Nagapariávania (Nāgaparijñāpanikā) An Amgabāhira Kālia text, not extant now. A monk of thirteen years' standing was considered eligible to study it. ? 1. Nan. 44, NanM. p. 207, NanH. p. 2. Vya. 10.27.
73, NanCu. p. 60, Pak. p. 45.
Same as Ņāga(6).1
Ņāgapavvaya ( Nāgaparvata)
1. Sth. 637.
Ņāgapura (Nāgapura ) A town visited by Titthayara Pāsa(1). There was a garden of the name of Sahasamba vana(9) in its vicinity. It is the same as Hatthiņāpura.
1. Jna. 153.
Nāgabhūya (Nāgabhūta ) An off-shoot of uddehagana(2).1
1. Kalp. p. 259. Ņāgamaha (Nāgamaha) A festival held in honour of nāgas (serpents).1
1. Jna. 21, 36, 68, Aca 2.12, JnaA. pp. 56, 132, RajM. p. 284, AcaCu. I. p. 157. Ņāgamitta (Nāgamitra) One of the eight principal disciples of preceptor Mahāgiri-1
1. Kalp. p. 257. Ņāgavasu (Nāgavasu) Father of Nāgadatta(2). He was a merchant of Paitthāņa.1
1. AvaCu. II. p. 188, AvaN. 1280, Aval. p. 698.
Ņāgayitta (Nāgavitta) One of the four Logapālas of Bhūyāņamda(1) mentioned in Viyāhapannatti. He has four principal wives : Suņamdā(4), Subhaddā(4), Sujāyā(3) and Sumaņā(4). The names of the Logapālas occurring in Thāņa do not include Nāga vitta as one of them but in his placc there is mentioned Kālavāla(2).2 1. Bha. 406.
2. Sth. 256, See also Bha. 169. 1. Ņāgasiri (Nāgašri) Wife of merchant Ņāgavasu of Paitthāna and mother of Ņāgadatta(2).1
1. Avaču. II. p. 188, AvaN. 1280. 2. Ņāgasiri Wife of Soma(7), a Brāhmaṇa belonging to Campā. Once she served ascetic Dhammarui(4) with a cooked vegetable prepared from a bitter gourd. The ascetic did not abandon the vegetable lest thousands of ants might eat it and die. He, on the contrary, ate it himself and died. Nāgasiri was born as Dovai, daughter of king Duvaya, after many a birth and death.1
1. Jna. 106-116.
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