Pāli Dictionary

Sirīsavatthu

Place

斯里蘭卡的一座夜叉之城,維闍耶王子(Vijaya)抵達時其首領是摩訶迦羅犀那(Mahākālasena),另有一位名叫祝提陀羅(Jutindhara)的夜叉也居於此。

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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