anurADa a. 1 Causing welfare; also written as anUrADa ; iMdraM vayamanUrADaM havAmahe Av. 2 Born under the asterism anurADA P. IV. 3. 34. — DA [ anugatA rADAM viSAKAM ] N. of the 17th of the 27 lunar mansions or asterisms (so called because it follows rADA or viSAKA ). It ( pb ) consists of four stars. Comp. — grAmaH , — puraM the ancient capital of Laṅkā or Ceylon; also called anuroDapura , described by Rājaśekhara as full of curiosities. It is a large town in the north of Ceylon “with 1600 square granite pillars which supported the floor of an enormous monastery called ‘The Great Brazen Palace’ said to have been built in 161 B. C. ”