Vessāmitta3
Person同名の五百人のうちの一人であるヤッカの首領で、仏陀のマハーサマヤ経の説法に出席し、後に信奉者たちが困難な時に祈願する対象となった。
A yakkha chief who, with five hundred others of the same name, was present at the teaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.257.
He is mentioned among the yakkha chiefs to be invoked in time of need by followers of the Buddha (D.iii.205).
Buddhaghosa says he was so called because he lived on a mountain called Vessāmitta. DA.ii.686; iii.970.
DN 32DN 20
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