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VAJRĀSANA (*see* BODHI-MAṆḌA)—A diamond throne, the miraculous throne under the Bodhi-tree at Gaya, on which Buddha and his predecessors sat when attaining perfect wisdom.
(1) ‘Bodhimanḍa is the name of the miraculous throne under the Bodhi-tree at Bodh Gaya, also called the Vajrāsana or diamond-throne, on which Buddha and his predecessors sat, when attaining bodhi or perfect wisdom.’—(*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XV, p. 257, c. 1–2.)
(2) Tenaitad atra kṛitam ātma-manovad uchchair vajrāsanasya bhavanaṁ bhuvanottamasya। ‘He erected here for the diamond throne, the best thing in the world, this habitation, lofty like his own mind.’—(Ghosrawa Buddhist inscrip., lines 14–15, *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XVII, pp. 310, 311, 308, note 5.)