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Vāsuladatta

Person

만제리카의 나가로, 삼촌 마하깔라의 신호에 따라 대탑에 봉안될 예정이던 붓다의 사리함을 삼켰으나, 후에 소눗따라의 신통력으로 사리를 되찾았다.

A Nāga of Mañjerika. He was the nephew of Mahākāḷa, and when Soṇuttara went to the Nāga world to obtain the Buddha’s relics for the Mahā Thūpa, Mahākāḷa signed to Vāsuladatta to hide them. Vāsuladatta assumed a huge Nāga 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, Soṇuttara, by his psychic power, put his hand into the Nāga’s stomach and removed the invisible relics. Mhv.xxxi.52 ff.

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