VÄsuladatta
A NÄga of Mañjerikabhavana. He was the nephew of MahÄkÄla, and when Sonuttara went to the NÄga world to obtain the Buddha’s relics for the MahÄ ThÅ«pa, MahÄkÄla signed to VÄsuladatta to hide them. VÄsuladatta assumed a huge NÄga form, three hundred leagues long, with a head one league in extent, and having swallowed the casket containing the relics, lay down at the foot of Sineru. However, Sonuttara, by his psychic power, put his hand into the NÄga’s stomach and removed the invisible relics. Mhv.xxxi.52ff.
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