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Vairuttă (Vairotyā) A tutelary goddess.
1. Ava p. 19. 1. Vairoyaņa (Vairocana ) A Logamtiya celestial abode where the Vanhi (3) gods dwell. The maximum span of life of the gods living therein is eight sägaropama years. It is situated in Bambhaloa. 1. Bha. 243.
2. Sam. 8.
2. Vairoyapa Another name of indra Bali.
1. Bha. 406, 587.
Vaisesiya (Vaišeşika) A heretical scripture. Its exponent is also known by the same name.2 Rohagutta(1) composed six Vaisesiya-suttas. The Āvassaya-bhāsa commentary records nine substances and seventeen attributes accepted by the Vaišeşikas.* See also Rohagutta.(1). 1. Nan. 42, Anu. 41, AcaCu. pp. 193, 2. AvaCu. I. p. 585; Uttu. p. 100, 361, AcaSi. pp. 20, 145, 184-5,
Aval. p. 375. 226-7, 233, SutSi, pp. 14, 227-8, 3. AvaCu. I. p. 426, Vis. 3007. 338, 426, NanM. p. 72, AvaH. p. 4. AvaBb. 139 ff, 321, Visk. pp. 128, 311.
Vaisesiya-sutta (Vaišeşikasūtra ) A philosophical text composed by Chalua (Rohagutta). It consisted of six chapters.
1. Utts. p. 171, AvaCu. I. p. 426.
A prince who is remembered as a virtuous man.
Vamkacūla (Vakracūļa )
1. Ava. p. 27.
1.Vamga (Banga ) An Āriya country as well as one of the sixteen Janapadas in the time of Mahāyira. Its capital was Tämalitti. Vamga is identified with South-East Bengal including the district round modern Tamluk in South-West Bengal.5 · 1. Praj. 37, SutSi. p. 123, Kalp Dh. p., 3. Praj. 37. 152, KalpV. p. 236.
4. SGAMI. p. 27. 2. Bha. 554.
5. Ibid. p. 29.
2. Vamga One of the hundred sons of Usabha(1).
1. KalpDh. p. 151, KaloV. p. 236.
Identical with Vaggacūliyā.1
Vamgacūliyā (Vargacülikā )
1. VyaBh. 10.26.
VaRtara (Vyantara). Same as Vāṇamamtara.
1. Pras. 15. Vamtari (Vyantari) A Vāṇamaṁtara goddess."
1. BrhBh. 6259, AvaCu. I. p. 293, AcaSi. p. 255, NanM. p. 154.
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