vErocana
vairocana , ( 1 ) (= Pali vero°, Skt. viro°) the sun : °naṃ vā gagaṇasmiṃ sarvaraśmisamāgataṃ arcitvā … Mv ii.304.9 ( vs ); °nasya jagato viśiṣṭā ābhā ( Senart adds abhū) bhaviṣyati kiṃ tu adya Mv ii.316.9 ( vs ); this is prob. the mg. of the first member of many of the cpd. proper names which follow this entry; ( 2 ) ( cf. Pali 2 Verocana in DPPN , n. of a certain jewel; AMg. vairoyaṇa, fire ; and see virocana 1), a certain jewel (also viro° ): °nāṃ maṇiratnāṃ grahetvā Mv ii.317.13 ( vs ); °na-maṇiratna- Gv 101.12 (prose; -padmagarbhāṇi); 159.1 (prose; vitāna-vitataṃ); ( 3 ) n. of one (the first) of the five ‘transcendent’ Buddhas: Dharmas 3 (first of ‘five Buddhas’); Mvy 82 ( foll. by the other four of Dharmas 3 , at the head of a list of names of Tathāgatas) = Tib. rnam par snaṅ mdzad ; once replaced by Kāyeśa , q.v. ; Sādh 16.9 etc. (same group of five); he is prob. identical with the Vairocana who occurs in Śākyamuniʼs place in the standard series of Buddhas (after Kāśyapa) Gv 298.6 ; the standard story of Śākyamuniʼs birth in the Lumbinī grove is told of Vai°, Gv 379.24 ff. ; 381.5 , with the usual personnel, Māyā, Gopā, etc. ; mentioned with Gopā but not as her husband, 396.23 ; other refs. , see s.v. Māyā (1); and cf. P. Mus, Barabudur , p. 584 ; a Tathāgata of this name mentioned in several earlier passages of Gv , e.g. 40.1 ; 277.23 ; 290.23 , with what seems to be special respect, may be identified with the V. just described, and so prob. with the ‘transcendent’ Buddha; in Gv 82.12 the last of a list of Buddhas the first of which is Amitābha, but the others mostly unknown; ( 4 ) prob. not to be identified with the prec. , n. of one or more former (in Mmk perhaps contemporary) Buddhas: LV 171.10 ( vs ; Lefm. Virocana (3), most mss. Vai°, metr. indifferent); Mmk 64.2 ; Gv 104.18 ; ( 5 ) n. of a future Buddha: Mv iii.330.15 ; ( 6 ) n. of a cakravartin, former incarnation of Maitreya: Mv i.59.2, 13 ; ( 7 ) n. of a nīlakāyika ( q.v. ) devaputra: LV 383.11 ; ( 8 ) n. of a samādhi: Mvy 536 ; ŚsP 1417.12 .