vAyumaRqalavat
( vāyu-maṇḍala-vat , adv. , = Skt. , Mbh. 12.6886 , like a whirlwind : °vad ākāśe paribhramanti Av i.256.9 rush around in the sky like a whirlwind ; Chin. acc. to Speyer moving rapidly to the four points of the compass ; from this Speyer infers that vāyumaṇḍala was taken as the circuit of the compass ; but Chin. evidently rendered ākāśe by that phrase, and vāyumaṇḍalavat, loosely, by rapidly . Cf. vātamaṇḍalī .)