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Girikaṇḍaka

A vihāra in Sri Lanka restored by Vijayabāhu I (Cv.lx.60).

The vihāra’s alms-resort (gocaragāma) was a village called Vaṭṭakālaka (q.v.), where lived a girl who, by reason of her great rapture, transplanted herself to the vihāra through the air. Vism.143; DhSA.116.