elapatra , m. , ( 1 ) one of four ‘great treasures’ (mahānidhi; cf. a similar group of four treasures in Pali , DN comm. i.284.8 , saṅkha, ela, uppala, puṇḍarīka), each presided over by a nāga king of (presumably) the same name (so definitely stated for Elapatra): Mv iii.383.18—384.1 catvāro mahānidhayo saṃkho vārāṇasyāṃ mithilāyāṃ (19) padumo kaliṃgeṣu piṃgalo takṣaśilāyāṃ elapatro; vārāṇasyāṃ saṃkhasya māsiko (20) samājo vartati; tahiṃ nidhānādhipatayo nāgarājāno nimantritakā āgatā; ( 384.1 ) tatra ca elapatreṇa nāgarājñā praśnā sthāpitā (see below for Pali equivalent); ( 2 ) Elapatra, in Mv iii.384.1 , above, n. of a nāga king presiding over the ‘treasure’ of the same name; presumably the same as the nāga (or nāga king) named (without reference to the ‘treasure’) Mvy 3271 ( Kyoto ed. Elāpattra, by error; Mironov Ela° with no v.l. ); Suv 162.9 ; Mmk 452.20 ; Kv 2.9 ; Māy 222.3 ; 247.2 ; certainly the same as the Elapatra ( mss. ; ed. wrongly em. Elā°) of Divy 61.4 , tho here he is not called a nāga but one of the four ‘kings’ presiding over the four treasures ( cf. Mv iii.383.18 ff. above), ( Divy 61.1 ) atha catvāro mahārājāś caturmahānidhisthāḥ, (3—4, vs ) Piṅgalaś ca Kaliṅgeṣu Mithilāyāṃ ca Pāṇḍukaḥ, Elapatraś ca Gāndhāre Śaṅkho Vārāṇasīpure. Besides the Pali parallel, DN comm. above, cf. the 9 treasures of Kubera which include Śaṅkha and Padma (with presiding personages of the same names), and among the Jains the 9 treasures of a cakravartin, which in their AMg. forms include piṃgala, paṇḍua (= pāṇḍuka), and saṃkha; the Skt. forms of these are recorded at least lexically. Note also in Pali the nāga king Erakapatta, of Dhp. comm. iii.231 ff. , who however does not seem to be brought into relation to the ‘treasure’ called in Pali ela (above); but the vss attributed to him, and the replies to them, in Dhp. comm. are reproduced in Mv iii.384 , see above.