Vijaya untranslated

Vijaya 01. The first Ariyan king of Ceylon. He was the eldest of the thirty-two sons of Sīhabāhu, king of Lāḷa, and of Sīhasīvalī. Because of his evil conduct he, with seven hundred others, was deported by the king, with their heads half-shaved. Their wives and children were deported with them. The children landed at Naggadīpa and the women at Mahilādīpaka (Mhv­ṭ. 264). Vijaya and the other men landed at Suppāraka, but was obliged to leave owing to the violence of his supporters.

According to Dpv.ix.26, Vijaya went from Suppāraka to Bhārukaccha, where he stayed for three months. They reached Ceylon on the day of the Buddha’s death, received the protection of the Deva Uppalavaṇṇa, and thus escaped destruction by the Yakkhas. The Yakkhinī, Kuveṇī, fell in love with Vijaya, and he, with her assistance, killed the Yakkhas of Laṅkāpura and Sirīsavatthu, and founded the city of Tambapaṇṇi. Vijaya’s chief ministers, Anurādha, Upatissa, Ujjena, Uruvela and Vijita, founded separate colonies, named after themselves.

Vijaya had two children by Kuveṇī, Jīvahattha and Dīpellā; but when he wished to be consecrated king, he sent for and obtained, for his wife, a daughter of the Paṇḍu king of Madhurā. Kuveṇī, thereupon, left him and was killed by the Yakkhas. Vijaya reigned for thirty-eight years and was succeeded by Paṇḍuvāsudeva. For details of Vijaya’s life, see Mhv.vi.38ff.; vii.6ff.; viii.1-3; Dpv.ix.6ff.

Ajātasattu and Vijaya were contemporaries, Ajātasattu’s twenty-fourth year of kingship corresponding to Vijaya’s sixteenth year. Dpv.iv.27; v.77.

Vijaya 02. See Vijayakumāra.

Vijaya 03. Minister of Aṅgati, king of Videha. For details see the Mahā Nāradakassapajātaka (Ja 544). He is identified with Sāriputta. Ja.vi.255.

Vijaya 04. A king of Benares, descended from Mahā Sammata. His son was Vijitasena. Dpv.iii.39.

Vijaya 05. A householder, mentioned as an exemplary layman. AN.iii.451.

Vijaya 06. Vijaya Thera. He was born in Sāvatthī and was versed in Brahmin lore. Then he became an ascetic and lived in the forest. Having heard of the Buddha, Vijaya visited him and joined the Saṅgha, becoming an Arahant in due course. In the time of Piyadassī Buddha he was a rich householder and built a jewelled cornice (vedikā) round the Buddha’s Thūpa. Sixteen kappas ago he became king thirty-six times, under the name of Maṇippabhāsa (Thag. vs. 92; Thag­a.i.191f). He is probably identical with Vedikāraka Thera of the Apadāna. Ap.i.171.

Vijaya 07. Mentioned with Jātimitta, as a patron of Metteyya Buddha. Anāg.vs.59.