Hemavata untranslated

Hemavata. A Yakkha chief, to be invoked by followers of the Buddha in time of need (DN.iii.204). He was present at the preaching of the Mahā Samayasutta (DN.ii.256). He was the friend of Sātāgira (q.v. for his story).

Hemavatā 01. A river (Ja.iv.437, 438). See the Bhallāṭiyajātaka (Ja 504).

Hemavatā 02. A heretical sect in Jambudīpa (Mhv.v.12; Dpv.v.54). They were so-called because they lived on Mount Himavata (Rockhill, p.184). They held that a Bodhisatta was not an ordinary mortal, that even a tīrthaka could have the five abhiññā, that the puggala is separate from the khandhas. Ibid., 190.