Vejayanta, Vejayamta: 3 definitions
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Vejayanta. A pasada belonging to Sakka. When Moggallana visited Sakka to discover if he had fully understood the Buddhas teaching in the Culatanha sankhaya Sutta, Sakka tried to evade his questions by showing him this palace. It has one hundred towers, each seven stories high, with seven nymphs in each storey, waited on by seven attendants. The palace appeared in Tavatimsa on the day of Sakkas decisive victory over the Asuras. Moggallana allowed himself to be shown round, and then, with his big toe, he made the palace quake and rock. M.i.252f.; cf. Thag. 1196f.; ThagA.ii.184. The palace was also made to rock by the novice Sangharakkhita (q.v.) on the day he joined the Order (DA.ii.558).
The palace is one thousand leagues high, and is so called because it arose in the hour of victory (J.i.203). It is decked with banners, each three hundred leagues long banners of gold on jewelled staffs and vice versa; and the whole palace is built of the seven precious substances. It arose as the result of the rest house built by Sakka, in his birth as Magha, for the use of the multitude (DhA.i.273; cf. DA.iii.698). When the Buddha visited Tavatimsa with Nanda, Sakka was in the palace with his crimson footed (kakutapadiniyo) nymphs and came forward with them to greet him. The nymphs had given oil for the massaging of Kassapa Buddhas feet, hence the colour of their own feet. SNA.i.274.
When King Sadhina of Mithila went to Tavatimsa, he lived, according to human computation, seven hundred years in Vejayanta (J.iv.357).
The Vejayantapasada is illustrated on the Bharhut Tope. Cunningham, Bharhut Tope, p. 137.
2. Vejayanta. A chariot owned by Sakka, one hundred and fifty leagues in length (DA.ii.481; SA.i.261; J.i.202), and drawn by one thousand horses, with Matali as charioteer (S.i.224). Sakka rode into battle in this chariot (J.i.202), and it was sent to fetch distinguished humans to Tavatimsa e.g., Nimi, Guttila and Sadhina (q.v.). The Sudhabhojana Jataka (J.v.408f ) contains a description of the chariot with its pole of gold and its framework overlaid with gilt representations of various animals and birds. When the chariot travelled the whole world was filled with the sound of its wheels.
3. Vejayanta. The chief of the eighty four thousand chariots owned by Mahasudassana (S.iii.145; D.ii.187). The navel of its wheels was made of sapphire, the spokes of seven kinds of precious things, the rim of coral, the axle of silver, etc. SA.ii.237.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryvejayanta : (m.) name of Indra's palace.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryVejayaṃta (वेजयंत) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Vaijayanta.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
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Full-text: Vaijayanta, Culatanhasankhaya Sutta, Sangharakkhita, Kulavaka Jataka, Sakka, Matali, Mahasena, Mahasudassana Sutta.
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