Pali Proper Names — V

• Vibbhanta Bhikkhu Vatthu
• Vibhajjavāda. The name given to the Dhamma by the orthodox; the term is identical with Theravāda and the Buddha is described as Vibhajjavādī. E.g., 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 and 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 daughter. 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 with 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 and brahmins of mighty power and 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 and became an arahant. Ras.i.132f.
• Vidhūpanadāyaka Thera. An arahant. He gave a fan to Padumuttara Buddha and sang his praises as he fanned him. He became an arahant at the age of seven. He was king sixteen times under the name of Vījamāna. Ap.i.103f.
• Vidhura
• Vidhūra
• Vidhurapandita Jātaka (No. 545)
• Vidhurinda 1.-A Nāga king 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 and 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 king of twenty 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 (No. 393)
• Vihāra Sutta
• Vihārabīja. A village in Ceylon from which five hundred 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 (No.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 king of the race of Makhādeva. He ruled in Benares and his son was Vijitasena. MT. 130; but Dpv.iii.39 calls him Vijaya.
• Vihatābhā. A king of twenty nine kappas ago, a previous birth of Campakapupphiya (or Belatthānika) Thera. Ap.i.167; ThagA.i.205.
• Vījamāna. Sixty thousand 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 King Vijayabāhu III. in Vattalagāma (Cv.lxxxi.58). A monk, named Kāyasatti, was its chief incumbent in the time of Parakkamabāhu IV., Cv.xc.91.
• Vijayabhuja. See Vijayabāhu.
• Vijayakumāra. Son of Sirināga II., and king of Ceylon for one year (302 3 A.C.). He was killed in his palace by the three Lambakannas: Sanghatissa, Sanghabodhi and Gothābhaya. Mhv.xxxvi.57f; Dpv.xxii.51.
• Vijayapāla. Son of Vimaladhammasūriya I. and his queen, Dona Catherina. He was governor of the province of Mātula. Cv.xcv.22.
• 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, and 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, and also the village of Hatthipora (q.v.). The city was a stronghold of the Damilas, and 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 with 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 (No. 233)
• Vikata. A mountain near Himavā. Ap.i.227.
• Vikkama. A Lokagalla. He was a general of Rohana and 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, and, 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 king 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, and he was obliged to abdicate in favour of the Ingirisī (English). Cv.ci.19ff.
• Vikkambhuja. See Vikkamabāhu.
• Vikkantabāhu. See Vikkamabāhu.
• Vikkantacāmunakka. General of Anīkanga whom he slew. He acted for one year (1209 A.C.) as regent for Queen Līlāvatī. Cv.lxxx.45.
• Vilāna. A place near Ālisāra, mentioned in the wars of Gajabāhu. Cv.lxx.166.
• Vilasa.-A very rich man of Kandalisālagāma. His wealth was fabulous, and the king, 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 king, stopped outside the city. Ras.ii.130f.
• Vilāta. A country. Mil. 327, 331; Rhys I)avids identifies it with Tartary (Mil. Trs.ii.204).
• Vilattākhanda. The weir of a tank repaired by Parakkamabāhu I. Cv.lxxix.67.
• Villagāma.-A village in the south of Ceylon. Ras.ii.147.
• Villavarāyara. A Damila chief, ally of Kulasekhara. He was slain by the soldiers of Lankāpuira. Cv.lxxvi.94, 163; but see 173 and 185.
• Villikābā. A district of Ceylon, once the residence of Vijayabāhu I. Cv.lviii.29.
• Vilokana. A king 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 and 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 and it was held in high esteem by King 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 five spheres of release experienced when one teaches the Dhamma to another, when yet another listens, when one learns it oneself, when one ponders and reflects on it, and when one has rightly penetrated into it. A.iii.21f.