Sirīsavatthu

Place

Eine Stadt der Yakkhas auf Sri Lanka, deren Anführer zur Zeit der Ankunft von Prinz Vijaya Mahākālasena war, wobei ein weiterer Yakkha namens Jutindhara ebenfalls dort wohnte.

A city of the yakkhas in Sri Lanka (Tambapaṇṇidīpa) (See the Valāhassa Jātaka; cf. Mhv.vii.32).

According to the Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā (MT. 259), at the time of Vijaya’s arrival in Sri Lanka, the chief Yakkha of the city was Mahākālasena.

Jutindhara was the name of another yakkha who lived there. MT. 289.

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