Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.887
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.887
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v2.c35.887
Vāsuladatta.—A Nāga of Mañjerikabhavana. He was the nephew of Mahākāla, and when Soṇuttara went to the Nāga-world to obtain the Buddha's relics for the Mahā Thūpa, Mahākāla 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. But Soṇuttara, by his iddhi-power, put his hand into the Nāga's stomach and removed the invisible relics.¹