Pali Proper Names - V -

• Vibbhanta bhikkbu Vatthu
• Vibhajjavāda. Der Name Buddhas Lehre (Dhamma) der Strenggläubigen; der Ausdruck ist identisch mit Theravāda und der Buddha wird Vibhajjavādī genannt. Z.B., Mhv.v.171; VibhA.130; cp. Kvu. Trs. introd. p.38.
• Vibhanga
• Vibhanga Sutta
• Vibhanga Vagga. The fourteenth Vagga of the Majjhima Nikāya (suttas 131-42). M.iii.187 257.
• Vibhangappakarana
• Vibhāta. One of the eleven children of Panduvāsudeva und Bhaddakaccānā. Dpv.x.3; see also xviii.41, 44.
• Vibhatti Sutta. Preached by Sāriputta on the four branches of analytical knowledge: meanings (attha); conditions (dhammā); definitions (nirutti); intellect (patibhāna). A.ii.159f.
• Vibhattikathā. A treatise, probably grammatical, by a Ceylon monk. Gv. 65, 75.
• Vibhattyattha 1. A work on Pāli cases by Kyocva's Tochter. Sās., p. 77.
• Vibhattyattha 2. A Pāli grammatical treatise by Saddhammañāna. Bude, op. cit., 26.
• Vibhīsana vihāra. A monastery built by Dhātusena. Cv.xxxviii.49.
• Vibhītakamiñjiya Thera. An arahant. He gave a vibhītaka fruit to Kakusandha Buddha (Ap.ii.396). He is perhaps identical mit Sopāka Thera. ThagA.i.95.
• Vibhūsaka Brahmadatta
• Vicakkanā. A class of devas, present at the preaching of the Mahā samaya, Sutta. D.ii.261.
• Vicchidaka Sutta. The idea of a fissured corpse, if cultivated, leads to great profit. S.v.131.
• Vicitoli (Vicikoli). Wife of Dhammadassī Buddha in his last lay life. Their son was Puññavaddhana (Bu.xvi.15). Vicitoli gave milk rice to the Buddha just before his Enlightenment. BuA.182.
• Vicittā, One of the chief lay women supporters of Padumuttara Buddha. Bu.xi.26.
• Vidadhimukhamandatīkā. A Commentary by Vepullabuddhi (Gv. 64, 74). It was, perhaps, a Commentary to Vidaghamukhamandana (a book of riddles) by Dhammadāsa. Bode, op. cit., 28, n.3.
• Viddumagāma. A village in Ceylon in which was the Sirighanānanda-parivena. Cv.xc.98.
• Videha
• Videhiputta 1. A name given to Alāra. J.v.166.
• Videhiputta 2. See Vedehiputta.
• Vidhā Sutta. Recluses und brahmins of mighty power und majesty in the past, present or future, all owe their power to the cultivation of the four satipatthānas. S.v.274.
• Vidhātā. Given as the name of a god to whom sacrifices should be offered as a means of obtaining happiness. J.vi.201.
• Vidhavā. A river in the inner regions of Himavā (anto Himavante). J.iii.467.
• Vidhola.-A hunter, who later joined the Order at Tissa Vihāra in Mahāgama und became an arahant. Ras.i.132f.
• Vidhūpanadāyaka Thera. An arahant. He gave a fan to Padumuttara Buddha und sang his praises as he fanned him. He became an arahant at the age of seven. He was König sixteen times under the name of Vījamāna. Ap.i.103f.
• Vidhura
• Vidhūra
• Vidhurapandita Jātaka (Nr. 545)
• Vidhurinda 1.-A Nāga König who was given in charge of the Bodhi-tree by Asoka during its travels to Ceylon. Mbv.153
• Vidhurinda 2.-One of the brothers of Vedisadevī. He escorted the Bodhi-tree to Ceylon und was given the rank of Lankāparisuddhanāyaka. Mbv.169.
• Viditvisesa. The name under which Ajātasattu will become a Pacceka Buddha. DA.i.238.
• Vidoja. An epithet of Indra. UdA.75; see also n.12.
• Vidūdabha
• Vidūra Jātaka. See Sucira Jātaka.
• Vidurā. One of the wives of Udaya IV. She fixed a mandorla (pādajāla) on an image of the Buddha which was in the Mahāvihāra. Cv.liii.50.
• Viduragga. Senāpati of Udaya IV. Cv.liii.46; cf. Vajiragga.
• Vigatānanda. A König of zwanzig four kappas ago, a former birth of Ekanandiya Thera. Ap.i.217.
• Vigatāsoka. See Vītāsoka.
• Viggāhita Sutta. The Buddha exhorts the monks not to engage in wordy warfare, such talk being neither profitable nor conducive to Nibbāna. They should converse about dukkha, its cause, etc. S.v.419.
• Vighāsa Jātaka (Nr. 393)
• Vihāra Sutta
• Vihārabīja. A village in Ceylon from which fünf hundert young men entered the Order on the occasion of the enshrinement of the Buddha's collar bone in the Thūpārāma. Mhv.xvii.59.
• Vihāradānānaumodanā Sutta.-A sutta quoted in the Sutta Sangaha (Nr.63) from the Vinaya Pitaka (Vin.147f.) on the value of gifting vihāras
• Vihāradevī
• Vihāravāpi. A village in Ceylon, near Tulādhārapabbata. It was the birthplace of Labhīya Vasabha. Mhv.xxiii.90.
• Vihāravejjasālatittha. A ford in the Mahāvālukagangā. Cv.lxxii.25.
• Vihāsava. A König of the race of Makhādeva. He ruled in Benares und his son was Vijitasena. MT. 130; but Dpv.iii.39 calls him Vijaya.
• Vihatābhā. A König of zwanzig nine kappas ago, a previous birth of Campakapupphiya (or Belatthānika) Thera. Ap.i.167; ThagA.i.205.
• Vījamāna. Sixty tausend kappas ago there were sixteen kings of this name, all previous births of Vidhūpanadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.103.
• Vijambhavatthu. A place of residence for monks in the Vattaniyasenāsana, where Rohana took Nāgasena to admit him into the Order. Mil. p. 12.
• Vijaya
• Vijaya Sutta
• Vijayā Sutta. Contains the story of Māra’s temptation of Vijayā Therī. S.i.130.
• Vijayā Therī
• Vijayabāhu
• Vijayabāhu parivena-vihāra. A monastery built by König Vijayabāhu III. in Vattalagāma (Cv.lxxxi.58). A monk, named Kāyasatti, was its chief incumbent In der Zeit von Parakkamabāhu IV., Cv.xc.91.
• Vijayabhuja. See Vijayabāhu.
• Vijayapura. The Pāli name for the city of Panyā in Burma. Bode, op. cit., 27, 40.
• Vijayārāma
• Vijayasundārāma. A monastery built by Vijayabāhu III. Cv.lxxxi.51; see also P.L.C. 209.
• Vijayuttara
• Vijita
• Vijitā
• Vijitamitta. A brahmin, friend of Bhaddasāla, und later aggasāvaka of Nārada Buddha. v.l. Jitamitta. Bu.x.23; BuA.154.
• Vijita-pura, Vijīta nagara. A city founded by Vijita, minister to Vijaya. Near by was Khandhāvārapitthi, where Dutthagāmanī pitched his camp during his campaign against the Damilas, und also the village of Hatthipora (q.v.). The city was a stronghold of the Damilas, und was captured by Dutthagtāmanī after a four months' siege. For details of the siege see Mhv.xxv.19ff.
• Vijitasangāma. A yavapālaka who supplied grass to Tissa Buddha for his seat. BuA.189.
• Vijitasena
• Vijitasenā
• Vijitāvī
• Vijjā Sutta
• Vijjābhāgiya Sutta. The six parts of wisdom: the idea of impermanence, of ill in impermanence, of not self in ill, of renunciation, of dispassion, of ending. A.iii.334.
• Vijjādhara guhā,  lena. A cave in Pulatthipura, forming part of Uttarārāma (Cv.lxxviii.73). The boundary of the Baddhasīmāpāsāda grounds passed fifty staves (375 ft.) to the north of this cave. Ibid., vs. 66. See Cv. Trs.ii.111, n.2.
• Vijjāmandapa. A building in the Dīpuyyāna. It was built to demonstrate the various branches of science. Cv.lxxiii.115.
• Vijjāvimutti Sutta. The holy life is lived mit the realization of the fruits of knowledge for its aim. S.v.28.
• Vijjha
• Vikāla Sutta. Few are they who abstain from eating at unseasonable hours, many they who do not. S.v.470.
• Vikannaka Jātaka (Nr. 233)
• Vikata. A mountain near Himavā. Ap.i.227.
• Vikkama. A Lokagalla. He was a general of Rohana und was defeated by the Mūlapotthakī Māna. Cv.lxxv.138.
• Vikkamabāhu
• Vikkamacolappera. A stronghold in South India, occupied by Pandiyarāyara. It was captured by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvi.178.
• Vikkamapandu. Son of Mahālānakitti. He was staying in the Dulu country when he heard of the events in Ceylon, und, going to the province of Rohana, he carried on the government at Kālatittha for one year (1046 A.C.), till he was slain by Jagatīpāla. Cv.lvi.11ff.
• Vikkamapura. A town in Dakkhinadesa, once used as headquarters by Parakkamabāhu I., before his capture of the throne. It was near Kyānagāma. Cv.lxxii.147, 263. Geiger suggests (Cv. Trs.i.333, n.3) that it was the town attached to the fortress of Sīhagiri.
• Vikkamarājasīha. The last König of Ceylon. He was the son of the sister of Rājādhirājasīha, whom he succeeded. He ruled for eighteen years (1798-1815 A.C.), but the people rebelled against him, und he was obliged to abdicate in favour of the Ingirisī (English). Cv.ci.19ff.
• Vikkambhuja. See Vikkamabāhu.
• Vikkantabāhu. See Vikkamabāhu.
• Vilāna. A place near Ālisāra, erwähnt in the wars of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.166.
• Vilasa.-A very rich man of Kandalisālagāma. His wealth was fabulous, und the König, wishing to test its extent, asked him to supply various luxuries. The Muggagāma Vihāra was built on the spot where his carts, bringing green peas to the König, stopped outside the city. Ras.ii.130f.
• Vilāta. A country. Mil. 327, 331; Rhys I)avids identifies it mit Tartary (Mil. Trs.ii.204).
• Villagāma.-A village in the south of Ceylon. Ras.ii.147.
• Villikābā. A district of Ceylon, once the residence of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lviii.29.
• Vilokana. A König of eighty one kappas ago, a former birth of Mānava (Sammukhāthavika) Thera. Ap.i.159; ThagA.i.164.
• Vimala
• Vimalā Therī
• Vimalabuddhi
• Vimaladhammasūriya
• Vimalakondañña Thera
• Vimalatthavilāsinī. A Commentary by Dhammapāla on the Vimāma Vatthu (BuA. p. 236), forming part of the Paramatthadīpanī.
• Vimalavilāsinī. A Commentary by Dhammapāla on the Vimāna Vatthu; it forms part of the Paramatthadīpanī. BuA. p. 236.
• Vīmamsa khanda. The section of the Mūgapakkha Jātaka which describes the various tests applied to Temiya to discover whether his appearance of being deaf und dumb was a pretence. J.vi.9.
• Vīmamsaka Sutta. The Buddha tells the monks at Jetavana that the enquiring monk, who searches the heart of others, should study the Tathāgata. He then proceeds to give details as to how the study should be undertaken. M.i.317ff.
• Vimāna Vatthu
• Vimaticchedanī. A Commentarial work on the Abhidhamma by an Elder named Kusapa. Gv. 60, 70; P.L.C. 160.
• Vimativinodanī. A Commentary on the Vinaya by Kassapa Thera. It was one of the authorities quoted by the Pārupanas against the Ekamsikas und it was held in high esteem by König Dhammaceti. Gv. 61; Sis. 69; P.L.C. 179.
• Vimokkha Sutta. On eight kinds of deliverance. A.iv.306f.
• Vimokkhakathā. The fifth chapter of the Mahāvagga of the Patisambhidāmagga. PS.ii.35 73.
• Vimutti Sutta. On the fünf spheres of release experienced when one teaches the Dhamma to another, when yet another listens, when one learns it oneself, when one ponders und reflects on it, und when one has rightly penetrated into it. A.iii.21f.