Pali Proper Names — V

• Vācā Sutta 1. A nun who is wrong in speech, wrong in action, and who rejects the gift of faith, is destined for purgatory. A.iii.141.
• Vācā Sutta 2. Speech is good if spoken in season, in truth, softly, about the good and in amity. A.iii.243.
• Vācakopadesa. A treatise on Kaccāyana’s grammar by Vijitāvi, a monk of Burma (Sās., p.90). There is also a tīkā on it by another Vijitāvī. Bode, op. cit., 46, and n. 4.
• Vacana Sutta. See Vanaropa Sutta.
• Vacanatthajoti, Vacanatthajotikā. A glossary on the Vuttodaya by Vepullabuddhi Thera. Sās., p. 75; Bode, op. cit., 28, n.5.
• Vācavācaka or Vaccavācaka. A grammatical treatise by Dhammadassī of Pagan (Sās., p.75; Bode, op. cit., 22, and n. 6). There are several commentaries on it, the best known being by Saddhammanandi. Others are called Vaccavācakavannanā, Vacavācakarikā and Vaccavācakadīpanī.
• Vacāvātaka. A village in the Merukandara district, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxx.282, 295.
• Vaccavācaka. See Vācavācaka above.
• Vaccha
• Vaccha or Bandha Sutta
• Vacchagotta
• Vacchagotta Sutta
• Vacchanakha Jātaka (No. 235)
• Vacchanakha. The Bodhisatta born as a Paribbājaka. See the Vacchanakha Jātaka.
• Vacchapāla Thera
• Vacchāyana. See Pilotika. Buddhaghosa says (MA.i.393) this was the name of Pilotika’s gotta.
• Vācissara
• Vadakongu. A place in South India in charge of which was a maternal uncle of Kulasekhara. It is mentioned with Tenkongu. Cv.lxxvi.288; lxxvii.43.
• Vadali. A village in South India where Lankāpura killed Alavanda, and which he occupied after severe fighting. Cv.lxxvi.134, 169.
• Vadamanamekkundi. A locality in South India burnt by Lankāpura. Cv.lxxvii.87.
• Vadavalathirukka. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. Cv.lxxvi.94.
• Vaddha
• Vaddha (or Puppha) Sutta
• Vaddha vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Dhātusena (Cv.xxxviii.46). Its name was probably Vaddhamānaka.
• Vaddhagāma. See Velugāma.
• Vaddhakisūkara Jātaka (No. 283)
• Vaddhamāna
• Vaddhamānaka. See Vaddha vihāra above.
• Vaddhamānaka-tittha.-A ford on the Mahāvālukanadī; it was later called Sahassa-tittha and Assamandala-thittha. Ras.ii.61, 63.
• Vaddhamātā Therī
• Vaddhana
• Vaddhanavāpi. A tank repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.36.
• Vaddhī Sutta
• Vadha ālopa sāhasakāra Sutta. Few are they who abstain from torture, highway robbery and violent deeds; it is because they do not see the Four Noble Truths. S.v.473.
• Vadhagāmakapāsāna. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.6.
• Vadhukā Sutta
• Vādī Sutta. There are four kinds of expounders (vādī): those that know the meaning of a passage but not the letter, those that know the letter but not the meaning, those that know neither, those that know both. A.ii.138.
• Vādino Sutta
• Vaggamudātīriyā
• Vagguli Vatthu. The story of 500 bats who were born in heaven by listening to a recital of the Abhidhamma. SadS.81f.
• Vaggumudā
• Vāgissara. One of the Singhalese envoys sent by Parakkamabāhu I. to Rāmañña. His companion was Dhammakitti. The Rāmañña king put them into a leaky vessel and sent them home. Cv.lxxvi.32.
• Vāha. The name of Elāra’s state horse, stolen by Velusumana. MT. 440.
• Vāhadīpa. A monastery in Ceylon, to which Aggabodhi VI. added a Pāsāda (Cv.xlviii.65), and Udaya I. another, called the Senaggabodhipabbata pāsāda, (Cv.xlix.33) which was later repaired by Dappula. II. Cv.xlix.76.
• Vāhamavāpi. A tank built by King Mahāsena. Mhv.xxxvii.48.
• Vahana. One of the three palaces of Sikhī Buddha before his Renunciation. Bu.xxi.16; but BuA. (p. 201) calls it Nārivasabha.
• Vahavāpi. A tank built by King Vasabha. Mhv.xxxv.94; Dpv.xxii.7.
• Vahittha. A Damila chief, conquered by Dutthagāmanī. His fortress bore his name. Mhv.xxv.13.
• Vajagaragiri vihāra. A monastery, probably in Ceylon, the residence of Kāladeva Thera (q.v.). MA.i.100.
• Vājapeyya
• Vajira
• Vajirā
• Vajirā Sutta. An account of the conversation between Vajirā Therī and Māra. S.i.134f.
• Vajirabāhu. A Yakkha who, with four thousand others, kept guard at the fourth gate of Jotiya’s palace. DhA.iv.209.
• Vajirabuddhi. See Mahā Vajirabuddhi.
• Vajirabuddhitīkā. Also called Vinayagandhi or Vinayaganthi. A tīkā or explanation of difficult passages in the Vinaya Commentaries by Mahāvajirabuddhi Thera of Ceylon. Gv.60, 66.
• Vajiragga. A general of Udaya II. He helped in the subjugation of Rohana and in the capture of the Adipāda Kittaggabodhi, who had rebelled against the king. Cv.li.105, 118, 126.
• Vajirahattha. A deva, conqueror of the Asuras (D.ii.259). Buddhaghosa identifies him with Indra. DA.ii.689.
• Vajirakumārī, Vajirā
• Vajirapāni
• Vajirasama. Ninety one kappas ago there were seven kings of this name, all previous births of Sucidāyaka Thera (Ap.i.135). v.l. Vajirāsakha.
• Vajirasena. A building in the Abhayagiri vihāra, erected by Vajira, minister of Sena I. Cv.l.84.
• Vajiravāpi. A tank in Ceylon near which was a fortress, once occupied by Gokanna. Cv.lxx.72.
• Vajirāvudha
• Vajiravutti. See Vajirā (3).
• Vajirī, Vājirī. See Vajirakumārī.
• Vajirindha. A brahmin of Sucirindha, whose daughter gave a meal of milk rice to Kakusandha Buddha just before his Enlightenment. BuA. p.210.
• Vājirīya. A heretical sect of Buddhists, one of the seventeen schools which branched off one hundred years after the Buddha’s death. Mhv.v.13; Mhv. p.97; Dpv.v.54 calls them Apararājagirikā.
• Vajjabhūmi. See Vajjī.
• Vajjī
• Vajjī Sutta 1. Records the visit of Ugga-gahapati to the Buddha at Hatthigāma. S.iv.109.
• Vajjī Sutta 2. Evidently another name for the Sārandada Sutta. See. DA.ii.524.
• Vajjī Vagga. The third chapter of the Sattaka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.iv.16ff.
• Vajjihārā. The name of a tribe. Ap.ii.359 (vs. 19).
• Vajjiputta or Vesāli Sutta. Contains the story of the discontent of Vajjiputta (1). S.i.201f.
• Vajjiputta Thera
• Vajjiputtaka Sutta
• Vajjiputtakā, Vajjiputtiyā
• Vajjirājā. See Vajjī.
• Vajjita Thera
• Vajjiya Sutta. The story of the visit of Vajjiyamāhita to the Buddha. A.v.189ff.
• Vajjiyamāhita
• Vaka Jātaka (No. 300)
• Vakkali
• Vakkula. See Bakkula.
• Vāla. A horse belonging to King Kappina. DhA.ii.117.
• Valabhāmukha
• Vālagāma Vihāra.-A monastery near Cullatavālagāma. See Tambasumana.
• Vālagāma. See Jālagāma ??.
• Valāha Samyutta. The thirty second section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.iii.254 57; cf. A.ii.102ff.
• Valāhaka
• Valāhaka Sutta
• Valāhaka Vagga. The eleventh chapter of the Catukka Nipāta of the Anguttara Nikāya. A.ii.102 111; cp. S.iii.254ff.
• Valāhakāyikādevā
• Valāhassa Jātaka (No. 196)
• Valāhassavāpi. A tank in Ceylon, built by Upatissa II. (Cv.xxxvii.185) and repaired by Aggabodhi II. (Cv.xlii.67), Vijayabāhu I. (Cv.lx.50) and Parakkamabāhu I. (Cv.lxxix.36).
• Vālakkonda. A place in South India. Cv.lxxvi.187.
• Valangatissapabbata vihāra. See Talangatissapabbata vihāra ??.
• Vālavāhana. A horse belonging to King Kappina. DhA.ii.117.
• Vālika vihāra. A monastery in Jambukolapattana, once the residence of Punabbasu kutumbikaputta Tissa. VibhA.389.
• Vālikagāma. A village in Ceylon, evidently a seaport, where the Damilas, under Māgha and Jayabāhu, once had a fort. Cv.lxxxiii.17.
• Vālikākhetta. A village mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.62; also Cv. Trs.i.292, n. 2.
• Vālikapitthi vihāra. A monastery, probably in Ceylon, the residence of Abhidhammika Abhaya Thera. At the commencement of the vassa he, with a large number of his colleagues, recited the Mahāsuññatā Sutta, and, as a result, they lived apart from each other during the vassa, attaining arahantship, before the end of the season. MA.ii.907.
• Vālikārāma
• Vālivāsaragāma.  A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxiv.177.
• Valiyā. One of the chief women supporters of Dhammadassī Buddha. Bu.xvi. 20.
• Vallabhā
• Vallakkuttāra. A district in South India. Cv.lxxvi.247, 260.
• Vallavahagāma.-A village in Ceylon, the birthplace of Tambasumana. Ras.ii.24.
• Vallī vihāra. A monastery near Uruvelā, in Ceylon, built by King Subha. Mhv.xxxv.58.
• Valliggāma
• Vallipāsāna vihāra. A monastery to the west of Anurādhapura, near Mangalavitāna. It held the Indasālakalena, where once lived Mahānāgasena. MT. 552.
• Valliphaladāyaka Thera. An Arahant (Ap.i.296), evidently identical with Visākha Pañcāliputta (q.v.).
• Vallitittha. A ford in the Mahāvālukaganga. Cv.lxxii.82.
• Valliya Thera
• Valliyavīthi. A street in Mahāgāma. AA.i.279.
• Valliyera vihāra. A monastery in Rohana. For the use of an Elder who lived there, King Vasabha built the Mahāvalligotta vihāra. Mhv.xxxv.82; MT. 652.
• Vālodaka Jātaka (No. 183)
• Vālugāma. A village in South India which Lankāpura laid waste and rebuilt. Cv.lxxvi.286.
• Vālukagāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.18; cf. Mahāvālukagāma.
• Vālukapatta. A village near Pulatthipura. Cv.lxx.318.
• Vālukārāma. See Vālikārāma.
• Valutthi. A Damila chief of South India, won over to Lankāpura’s side with gifts. Cv.lxxvi.237.
• Vāmadeva. One of the great sages honoured by the brahmins as authors of hymns, etc. Vin.i.245; D.i.104, etc.; see Vāmaka; cf. Rigveda iv. 26; Rāmāyana i.7, etc.
• Vāmagotta. See Sūra Vāmagotta.
• Vāmaka. One of the great sages held in esteem by the brahmins. Vin.i.245; D.i.104,238; M.ii.169, 200; A.iii.224, etc.; cf. Vamsa in Rigveda x. 99.
• Vamana Sutta. Like a physician who administers an emetic for the curing of sickness, so does the Buddha administer the Ariyan emetic to cleanse beings of birth, old age, etc. Thus, right belief cleanses them from wrong belief, etc. A.v.219f.
• Vāmantapabbhāra. A glen in Ceylon, where lived Mahāsiva Thera (q.v.). J.vi.30; iv. 490.
• Vamatthappakāsinī. The Commentary on the Mahāvamsa, traditionally ascribed to a Thera named Mahānāma, and probably written about the ninth century. For details see P.T.S. edition, Introd.
• Vammīka Sutta
• Vamsā
• Vamsa Sutta. See Ariyavamsa Sutta.
• Vamsabhūmi, Vamsarattha. The country of the Vamsā.
• Vamsarājā. See Udena.
• Vana Samyutta. The ninth section of the Samyutta Nikāya. S.i.197 205.
• Vanagāma. A locality in Ceylon where Sugalā was captured. Cv.lxxv.174.
• Vanaggāmapāsāda. A monastery built by Vijayabāhu IV., to which was attached the Abhayarāja parivena. Cv.lxxxviii.51.
• Vanakorandiya Thera. An arahant. Ninety four kappas ago he gave a vanakoranda flower to Siddhattha Buddha. Ap.i.404.
• Vananadī. A river in Rohana. Cv.lxxv.156; identified with Velaveganga (Cv. Trs.ii.59, n. 4).
• Vanapattha Sutta
• Vanappavesanakhanda
• Vānara Jātaka (No. 342)
• Vānaragāma. A village in Rohana, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxv.7.
• Vānarākara. A park in Ceylon, laid out by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.8.
• Vanaratana Tissa. See Ānanda (11).
• Vanaratana. See Medhankara (5).
• Vānarinda Jātaka (No. 57)
• Vanaropa (or Vacana) Sutta
• Vanasa (Vanasāvhaya ?)
• Vanasāvatthi. See Vanasa.
• Vanavaccha Thera
• Vanavāsa
• Vanavāsī
• Vandanā Sutta
• Vandanavimāna Vatthu
• Vanga, Vangā
• Vanganta
• Vangantaputta. The epithet applied to Sāriputta’s brother Upasena, to distinguish him from others of the same name.
• Vangīsa Sutta
• Vangīsa Thera
• Vangīsa Thera Samyutta. The eighth section of the Samyutta Nikāya (S.i.185 96), dealing with incidents connected with Vangīsa Thera.
• Vangīsa Thera Vatthu. The story of Vangīsa’s conversion, his entry into the Order, and his attainment of arahantship. DhA.iv. 226f.
• Vanguttara. A mountain in Ceylon on which was built the Pācīnapabbata vihāra by Sūratissa (Mhv.xxi.5). The Mahāvamsa Tīkā (p. 424) explains that Vanguttara was at the foot of Ekadvārikapabbata.
• Vanijjā Sutta
• Vanijjagāma vihāra. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Kassapa III. Cv.xlviii.24.
• Vanka. A king of Sāvatthi. For his story see the Ghata Jātaka (No. 355). He is identified with Ānanda. J.iii.170.
• Vankagiri, vankapabbata, Vankatapabbata
• Vankahāra, Vangahāra
• Vankaka. The name of Mount Vepulla in the time of Konāgamana Buddha. S.ii.191.
• Vankanāsika Tissa
• Vankāvattakagalla. A monastery in Ceylon, built by Mahācūli-Mahātissa. Mhv.xxxiv.9.
• Vanna Sutta. One who praises and blames wrongly, without scrutiny, and who fails to blame or praise rightly, suffers in purgatory. A.ii.84.
• Vañña. Belonging to the Vanni.
• Vannabodhana. A treatise on the Pāli language by Ukkamsamāla of Ava. Sās, p. 120; Bode, op. cit., 65.
• Vannaka. An irrigation channel (mahāmātika) constructed by Kutakannatissa. Mhv.xxxiv.32; see also Mhv. Trs. 240, n.1.
• Vannakāraka Thera. An arahant. Thirty one kappas ago he was a painter (vannakāra) in Arunavatī and painted the drapery of the Buddha’s cetiya. Twenty three kappas ago he was a king named Candūpama. Ap.i.220.
• Vannanā Sutta. A nun who, without test or scrutiny, praises the unworthy and blames the worthy, shows faith in things unbelievable and disbelief in things believable and rejects the gift of faith — such a one goes to purgatory. A.iii.139.
• Vannanītigandha. One of the six treatises ascribed to Kaccāyana Gv.59.
• Vannapitaka. A compilation condemned by the orthodox as abuddhavacana. E.g., SA.ii.150; Sp.iv.742.
• Vannāroha Jātaka (No. 361)
• Vannāroha Vagga. The second chapter of the Jātakatthakathā. J.iii.191 210.
• Vannī
• Vannibhuvanekabāhu. See Bhuvanekabāhu III.
• Vannūpama. See Candūpama.
• Vannupatha Jātaka (No. 2)
• Vantajīvakā. A group or sect of Buddhist ascetics. Vijayabāhu I. provided them with necessaries and granted maintenance villages to their relations (Cv.lx.69). cp. Lābhavāsī.