Pali Proper Names - V -

• Vāpārani. Ein Kloster gebaut von Aggabodhi VI. Cv.xlviii.64.
• Vappa
• Vappa Sutta. The conversation between Vappa, the Sākyan, und the Buddha. See Vappa (2). A.ii.196f.
• Varadassana. A Cakkavatti of one kappa ago, a previous birth of Kusumāsaniya (Suyāmia) Thera. Ap.i.160; ThagA.i.166.
• Varadhara. A noted Paribbājaka In der Zeit von the Buddha. He lived mit Annabhāra, Sakuludāyī und others in the Paribbājakārāma, on the banks of the Sappinikā (A.ii.29, 176), und again in the Moranivāpa in Rājagaha. M.ii.1.
• Varadīpa. The name given to Ceylon In der Zeit von Konāgamana Buddha. Its capital was Vaddhamāna und its König Samiddha. Sp.i.86; Mhv.xv.93; Dpv.i.73; ix. 20; xv. 45, etc.
• Varakalyāna. A primeval König, son of Kalyāna. His son was Uposatha. Dpv.iii.4; Mhv.ii.2; J.ii.311; iii.454; but, according to DA.i.258 und SNA.i.342, Varakalyāna's son was Mandhātā.
• Varakappa. The name of a kappa in which three Buddhas are born in the world. BuA.158f..
• Varamandhātā. A primeval König, son of Mandhātā. His son was Cara. J.iii.454, but according to DA.i.258 und SNA.i.352, his son was Uposatha.
• Vārana
• Varana Jātaka (Nr. 71)
• Varana Vagga. The eighth chapter of the Eka Nipāta of the Jātakatthakathā. J.i.316 59.
• Varana. A Cakkavatti of forty one kappas ago, a previous birth of Kusumāsaniya (Suyāma) Thera. Ap.i.162; ThagA.i.171.
• Varanā. A city on the banks of the Kaddamadaha, where Arāmadanda visited Mahā Kaccāna. A.i.65; AA.i.322.
• Varañānamuni. Ein Thera. One of the two theras appointed to lead the delegation of monks who left Ayyojhā (in Siam) to go to Ceylon, for the furtherance of the Order in Ceylon, in the reign of Kittisirirājasīha. He was expert in the Dhamma und the Vinaya und taught them to the monks of Ceylon. Cv.c.138, 174.
• Vāranavatī, 'Elefantenstadt', wohl identisch mit Vāranavatam, die Hauptstadt von Anikaratta, dem König dem Sumedhā als Ehefrau gegeben werden sollte. ThigA.272, Thig..462.
• Vararoja
• Varavāranā
• Varuna
• Varunā. Eine Klasse von Gottheiten, erwähnt in der Mahāsamaya Sutta (D.ii.259, 260). They probably form the retinue of Varuna (18).
• Vārunā. A class of deities, followers of Varuda, who were present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.259.
• Varunadeva. The sixth son of Devagabbhā.
• Vārunī
• Vārunī Jātaka (Nr. 47)
• Varunindhara. An Ajīvaka who gave grass for his seat to Revata Buddha. BuA., p.132.
• Vasa Sutta. Seven things, skill in which enables a monk to turn his mind according to his wish und not to turn himself according to his mind. A.iv.34.
• Vāsabbakkhattiyā
• Vasabha
• Vāsabhā. See Vāsabhakhattiyā.
• Vāsabhagāma bhānavāra. The fourth chapter of the Campeyyakhandhaka of the Mahāvagga. Vin.i.312 22.
• Vāsabhagāma. A village in Kāsī. It was once the residence of Kassapa Thera (q.v.) (Vin.i.312f). Beyond this village was another, called Cundatthila, between Vāsabhagāma und Benares. Pv.iii.1; PvA. 168,170.
• Vasabhagāma. A village in Uddhagāma, given by Mahānāga to the Jetavana vihāra. Cv.xli.97.
• Vāsabhagāmī, Vāsabhagāmika
• Vasabhodakavāra. See Vasabha (6).
• Vasala Sutta
• Vasala, Vassala. A mountain near Himavā, where lived Sudassana Pacceka Buddha. ThagA.i.88, 395; Ap.ii.451 calls it Cāvala.
• Vasālanagara. A village in Ceylon, probably near Cittalapabbata. It was the residence of two brothers, Cūlanāga und Mahānāga, who later became monks. SA.ii.125.
• Vasantaguhā. A cave in the park of Parakkamabāhu I. in Pulatthipura. Cv.lxxiii.112.
• Vāsava
• Vāsavanesī. A class of devas, present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.260.
• Vasavattī
• Vasavattī Sutta. Vasavattī devaputta visits Moggallāna mit fünf hundert other devaputtas und agrees mit Moggallāna in singing the praises of the Buddha, the Dhamma und the Sangha. S.iv.280.
• Vāsettha
• Vāsettha Sutta
• Vāsetthī
• Vasī. An epithet of Mahābrahmā. z.B., J.vi.201.
• Vāsidāyaka Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he was an artisan (kammāra) in Tivarā und gave a razor to the Buddha. Ap.i.221.
• Vāsijata (or Nāvā) Sutta
• Vāsitthā, Vāsitthī.  See Vāsettha, Vāsetthī.
• Vasitthaka. The father of the Bodhisatta in the Takkala Jātaka. J.iv. 44ff.
• Vasitthī. See Vāsettha.
• Vassa
• Vassa Sutta
• Vassakāra
• Vassakāra Sutta
• Vassakārānumodanā Sutta.-A sutta quoted in the Sutta Sangaha (Nr.62) from the Vinaya Pitaka (i.229f.), where the Buddha gives thanks to Sunīdha und Vassakāra, for a meal given to him.
• Vassavalāhakā
• Vassāvāsabhānavāra. The first chapter of the Vassūpanāyikakhandha of the Mahāvagga. Vin.i.137 48.
• Vassavuttha Sutta
• Vassika Sutta. Just as of all scented flowers the jasmine (vassika) is the chief, so of all profitable conditions earnestness is the chief. S.v.44.
• Vassūpanāyikakandha. The third chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Vinaya Pitaka (Vin.i.137ff). It was preached by Mahinda to Devānampiyatissa to show the necessity of a monastery in Cetiyagiri. Mhv.xvi.9.
• Vasū. A class of devas of whom Sakka is the chief. See Vāsava. D.ii.260; DA.ii.690.
• Vasudattā. Wife of Padumuttara Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.xi.21.
• Vāsudeva
• Vāsula. Son of Candakumāra (J.vi.143); he is identified mit Rāhula. J.iv.157.
• Vāsuladatta
• Vāsuladattā
• Vasulokī or Vāsula. See Sudanta.
• Vasuttara. One of the palaces of Paduma Buddha before his Renunciation. BuA., p. 146; but see Paduma.
• Vāta Sutta
• Vatagāma. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Moggallāna III. He gave for its maintenance the village of the same name, which was attached to it. Cv.xliv.50.
• Vātaggasindhava Jātaka (Nr. 266)
• Vātaggasindhava. The Bodhisatta born as the state horse of the König of Benares. See the Vātaggasindhava Jātaka.
• Vātagiri. A mountain in the Dakkhinadesa of Ceylon, a point of strategic importance, providing a safe place of refuge. Cv.lviii.31; lx. 39; lxxxviii.43; see also Cv. Trs.i.204, n. 2.
• Vātakālaka
• Vātakapabbata. A place in Ceylon where Maliyadeva Thera preached the Cha Chakka Sutta und sixty monks became arahants. MA.ii.1024.
• Vātamangana. See Cittamangana ??.
• Vātamiga Jātaka (Nr. 14)
• Vatamsa. One of the three palaces of Sumana Buddha in his last lay life. Bu.v.22.
• Vatamsaka
• Vatamsakiya Thera
• Vatamsikā. The wife of Sumana Buddha before his Renunciation. Anupama was their son. Bu.v.23.
• Vatapada or Devā Sutta
• Vatarakkhatthalī. A village in Ceylon, erwähnt in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiv.76.
• Vātasama. A Cakkavatti of long ago, a previous birth of Mānava (Sammukhāthavika) Thera. ThagA.i.164; Ap.i.159.
• Vātātapanivāriya Thera. An arahant. Ap.i.207.
• Vātavalāhakā. See Valāhakā.
• Vātīyamandapa. A village erwähnt in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxii.32.
• Vatra. An Asura. See Vatrabhū below. J.v.153; cp. Sanskrit Vrtra.
• Vatrabhū. A name for Indra (Sakka). (J.v.153; S.i.47). Buddhaghosa (SA.i.83) explains it as sveva vattena aññe abhibhavitvā devissariyapatto ti Vatrabhū, Vatranāmakam vā asuram abhibhavatī ti.
• Vatsā. See Vamsā.
• Vatta Sutta. Sāriputta addresses the monks at Sāvatthi on the seven bojjhanga und of his ability to abide in any of these according to his desire; just as a nobleman possessed of many robes can don whichever he desires. S.v.70f.
• Vattabbaka Nigrodha
• Vattagāmanī Abhaya
• Vattaka Jātaka (Nr. 35)
• Vattakakārapitthi. A village granted by Aggabodhi I. for the maintenance of the Bhinnorudīpa vihāra. Cv.xlii.26.
• Vattakālaka
• Vattakkhandhaka. The eighth section of the Cullavagga. Vin.ii.207 31.
• Vattalagāma. A village in which Vijayabāhu III. built the Vijayabāhu-vihāra. Cv.lxxxi.58; see also Cv. Trs.ii.140, n.3.
• Vattanahānakottha. One of the eight bath houses erected in Pulatthipura by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxviii.45.
• Vattaniya
• Vattha Sutta
• Vatthadāyaka Thera. An arahant. In der Zeit von Atthadassī Buddha, he was a Garula, und, seeing the Buddha on his way to Gandhamādana, he offered him a garment. Thirty six kappas ago he was König seven times under the name of Arunaka. Ap.i.116.
• Vatthu Sutta
• Vatthugāthā
• Vatthulapabbata.-A mountain in Ceylon. Ras.ii.19f.
• Vatthūpama Sutta
• Vattita Sutta. On the eight proper ways of dealing mit a monk guilty of some offence, against whom proceedings have been taken. A.iv.347; cp. Vin.ii.86; M.ii.249.
• Vattura Vihāra.-A monastery on the banks of the Kappakandaranadī. Ras.ii.111.
• Vatuka. A Damila, paramour of Anulā. He reigned for one year und two months und was then poisoned by her. He was originally a carpenter in Anurādhapura. Mhv.xxxiv.19f.; Dpv.xx.27.
• Vaya Sutta. That which is transient by nature must be put away. S.iii.197.
• Vāyāma Sutta. A nun who speaks carelessly in praise of the unworthy und in blame of the praiseworthy, who is wrong in mindfulness und rejects the gifts of the faith, is destined for hell. A.iii.141.
• Vayiga. A river in South India. Cv.lxxvi.307.
• Vāyodevā. A class of deities present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.259.
• Vāyu. A deity, whose son was Vijjādhara. See the Samugga Jātaka.
• Vāyussaputta. See the Samugga Jātaka.
• Vebhalinga. See Vehalinga.
• Vebhāra
• Vedabbha Jātaka (Nr. 48)
• Vedabbha. The name of a charm und of a brahmin who knew it. See the Vedabbha Jātaka.
• Vedalla
• Vedalla Sutta. See Culla Vedalla und Mahā Vedalla.
• Vedanā Samyutta. The thirty sixth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iv.204-37.
• Vedanā Sutta
• Vedanāpariggaha Sutta. See the Dīghanakha Sutta, for which this was evidently another name. z.B., DA.ii.418; DhA.i.79; ThagA.ii.95.
• Vedanāya Sutta
• Vedaññā. See Vedhaññā.
• Vedeha
• Vedehā. The people of Videha.
• Vedehamuni
• Vedehaputta. An epithet of Sotthisena, König of Kāsi. The scholiast explains that his Mutter was a Videha princess. J.v.90.
• Vedeharajja, Vedeharattha. Name given to the kingdom of Videha. z.B., J.vi.393, 411.
• Vedehikā
• Vedehiputta
• Vedhañña, Vedañña
• Vedikāraka Thera
• Vedisa, Vedisagiri
• Vedisadevī
• Vedisaka. See Vediyaka.
• Vediya, Vediyaka
• Vediyadāyaka Thera. An arahant. He built a railing round the Bodhi tree of Vipassī Buddha. Eleven kappas ago he was a König named Sūriyassama. Ap.i.219f.
• Vegabbarī. See Vetambharī.
• Veghanasā. A class of devas present at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.261.
• Vehalinga
• Vehapphala
• Vejanīya Sutta. See Samvejanīya Sutta.
• Vejayanta
• Vekhanassa Sutta
• Vekhanassa. A Paribbājaka teacher of Sakuladāyī (MA.ii.716). See Vekhanassa Sutta.
• Vela, Velu. A friend of Vasabha und father of Velusumana, who was named after his father und his father's friend Sumana, governor of Girijanapada. Mhv.xxiii.69.
• Velagāmi vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, restored by Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lx.62.
• Velakkāra
• Velāma
• Velāma Sutta
• Velamikā. Chief of the eighty four tausend women who waited on Mahāsudassana, König of Kusāvatī. She was also called Khattiyānī. S.iii.146; but at D.ii.187 the chief queen is called Subhaddā.
• Velangavitthika 1. A monastery built by Saddhatissa. Mhv.xxxiii.8.
• Velangavitthika 2. A tank in Ceylon, built by Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.48.
• Velankundi. A village in South India, used as a stronghold in the campaigns of Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.89, 93.
• Vellināba. A stronghold in South India. Cv.lxxvii.39.
• Veludanta, Veludatta. Teacher of Vaddha Thera. ThagA.i.413.
• Veludvāra
• Veludvāra Vagga. The first chapter of the Sotāpatti Samyutta. S.v.342 60.
• Veludvāreyya Sutta
• Velugāma. A village in Avanti, birthplace of Isidatta Thera.v.l. Vaddhagāma. ThagA.i.238.
• Veluka Jātaka (Nr. 43)
• Veluka. A viper. See the Veluka Jātaka.
• Velukanda, Velukanta
• Velukantakī, Velukandakī, Velukantakiyā
• Velukapītā. See the Veluka Jātaka.
• Veluppa
• Veluriya. A village und a rock near which are found veluriyā (sapphires). VvA.27.
• Velusumana
• Veluvagāma. See Beluvagāma.
• Veluvana
• Veluvanadānānumodanā Sutta.-A sutta quoted in the Sutta Sangaha (Nr.64) from the introduction to the Buddhavamsa Commentary, giving an account of the gift of Veluvana by Bimbisāra
• Vemānika-petā. "Himmelspaläste bewohnende Geister", Wesen der Daseinsabgründe. Auf Grund eines starke »Gegensätze von Licht und Schatten« (oder Gut und Böse; kanhasukka-sappatibhāga) aufweisenden Wirkens (kamma) verbringen sie, ebenso wie ihr Gebieter Yama, ihr Leben teilweise in himmlischem Glück, teilweise aber in der 'Unterwelt' (vinipātikā) (A.iii.23).
• Venāga Sutta
• Venāgapura. A brahmin village of Kosala, where the Buddha preached the Venāga Sutta. A.i.180.
• Venasāra Jātaka. See the Dhonasākha Jātaka.
• Venateyya. A Garula, husband of Kākātī. He is identified mit Kunāla. J.v.428.
• Vendu Sutta. The question asked by Vendu (q.v.) und the Buddha's answer. S.l.52.
• Vendu. A devaputta. He visited the Buddha und asked him a question. S.i.52; SA. (i.87) calls him Venhu.
• Venhu. A deva who was present, mit his retinue, at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta (D.ii.259). See also Vendu above. Venhu is a Pāli form of Visnu. See also Andhakavenhudāsaputta.
• Venī. A she jackal, wife of Pūtimamsa. See the Putimamsa Jātaka.
• Venigāma.-The Chief of Cūlanāga. Ambāmacca was his son. Ras.ii.145.
• Venisāla.-Father of Tissāmacca.
• Venu. A river in Ceylon, on the way from Anurādhapura to Dakkhinadesa. It lay between the Tissavāpi und Jajjaranadī. VibhA. p. 446.
• Venudatta Thera. A monk. Valliya Thera heard him preach und questioned him. Pondering on what be had heard, he gained insight. ThagA.i.292.
• Venumatī. A channel branching off from the Toyavāpi on its western side. It was constructed by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.46.
• Vepacitti
• Vepacitti (or Khanti) Sutta
• Vepulla, Vipula
• Vepullabuddhi
• Vepullapabbata Sutta. It gives the particulars (names, etc.) regarding Mt. Vepulla in the age of the four last Buddhas. S.ii.190ff.
• Vepullatā Sutta. Four conditions which, if cultivated, lead to the increase of insight. S.v.411.
• Vera Sutta
• Verahaccāni
• Verahaccāni Sutta. Contains an account of the conversion of the brahmin lady of the Verehaccānigotta. S.iv.412f.
• Verambā Sutta. A monk whose heart is possessed by gains und flattery, und whose senses are unguarded in the presence of women -  he is like a bird caught in a hurricane (verambavāta). S.ii.231.
• Verambā, Verambhā. Probably a name for the monsoon winds. The scholiast says (ThagA.i.534) that, according to some, it was the name of a rocky glen (pabbataguhāpabbhāra).
• Verañjā
• Verañja Sutta. Describes the interview between the Buddha und the brahmin Verañja. See Verañjā. A.iv.172ff.
• Verañja. A brahmin. See Verañjā. According to Buddhaghosa his real name was Udaya, but he was called Verañja because he was born und lived at Verañjā. Sp.i.111.
• Verañjabhānavāra. The first section of the Sutta Vibhanga. Vin.iii.111.
• Verañjaka Sutta. Preached to the brahmins of Verañjā, who visited the Buddha at Sāvatthi. The subject matter is identical mit that of the Sāleyyaka Sutta. M.i.290.
• Verañjakā. The brahmins of Verañjā, to whom the Verañjaka Sutta was preached. M.i.290.
• Verī Jātaka (Nr. 103)
• Veriya Vihāra.-A monastery, probably near the Jajjaranadī. Maliyamahādeva once lived there. Ras.ii.153.
• Veroca
• Verocana
• Verocana Sutta. Records the visit of Verocana und Sakka to the Buddha. See Veroca.
• Vesākha
• Vesālā. Die Nāgas von Vesāli, die anwesend waren bei der Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.20; DA.ii.688.
• Vesāli
• Vesāli Sutta
• Vesārajja Sutta
• Vesāyī. Ein Name für Yama. J.ii.317, 318.
• Vessabhū
• Vessagiri
• Vessāmitta
• Vessāmittā. Allfreude, sind Luftgeister, die vom vedischen Seher Visvāmitras, Allfreund, ihren Namen haben, Aitareyabrāhmanam 718
• Vessamittā. Königin von Kosambī. Als ihr Mann bei einer Schlacht getötet wurde, wollte sie der Sieger heiraten, was sie verweigerte. Er ordnete an sie zu verbrennen aber sie blieb durch ihre Frömmigkeit unverletzt und erhielt große Ehre. Ras.i.18f.
• Vessānara. Ein Name für den Gott des Feuers. J.vi.203.
• Vessantara
• Vessantara Jātaka (Nr. 547)
• Vessara. Ein Hain in dem Mangala Buddha starb. Bu.iv.32.
• Vessavana
• Vetambarī
• Vetaranī
• Vetaraññī. Das Wasser des Höllenflusses Vetaranī. Jat.541, Jat.544.
• Vetendu. Ein Vasall des Cātummahārājāno, anwesend bei der Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.20.
• Vethadīpa, Vethadīpaka
• Vethadīpaka
• Vethipura. Eine Stadt in Indien, der Geburtsort von Abhibhūta Thera. v.1. Vetthapura. ThagA.i.372.
• Vettavāsa vihāra
• Vettavatī
• Vetthapura. Siehe oben, Vethipura.
• Vetullavāda
• Vevatiyakapi Jātaka. v.l. für Mahākapī. Jat.516.
• Veyyākarana
• Veyyāvaccaka Thera