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| ID | Word | Notes | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2480 | vajrācārya | [S.] n. lit. "master of the vajra"; sub-caste among the Newars who are elligible to receiving the highest initiations in Newar Buddhism and to officiate as domestic priests and gurus. | t.t. |
| 2754 | vajradhātumaṇḍala | [S.] var. bajradhātu-maṇḍala, vajradhātu-mandaḥ (New.); n. one of the most popular maṇḍalas in the Kathmandu Valley. Many of the caityas found here have been constructed based on the vajradhātumaṇḍala. Vairocana is the central deity of this maṇḍala and generally displayed with four faces and eight arms, thus taking the form of Vajradhātu (Bhattacharyya 1958: 54). The caityas constructed on the basis of the vajradhātumaṇḍala are known as vajradhātucaityas. Altogether, a vajradhātumaṇḍala consists of 53 deities, including, but not limited to, the pañcabuddha and their consorts, as well as the 16 great Bodhisattvas (Tachikawa 1991: 1074). | t.t. |
| 825 | vakila | var. vakīla; n. 1) authorized public pleader. 2) envoy, representative. 3) advocate (cf. Michael 2012: 135). | t.t. |
| 1761 | valaka | n. homestead levies collected in the hill districts (including Kathmandu Valley), i.e. a) sāune phāgu valaka, collected annually in Śrāvaṇa and Phālguna, b) harṣabismātako valaka, collected on occasions of national celebration or mourning, and c) kājakalyāṇako valaka, collected on ritual occasions (M.R. Pant 2002: 136, based on M.C. Regmi 1971: 230). | t.t. |
| 2402 | valī ahada | [fr. P.] var. vali ahada, valī ahīda; n. heir apparent, the king's eldest son who has already been granted the title of yuvarājādhirāja. | t.t. |
| 1846 | varṇa | var. varna; n. the four principal caste-classes, namely Brahmins, Kṣatriya, Vaiśya and Śūdra. | t.t. |
| 2186 | varṣabandhana | [S.] n. annual worship ritual commemorating the day of a deity's consecration; also New. busādhã. | t.t. |
| 2753 | varṣavardhana | [S.] n. Annual worship ritual commemmorating the establishment of a caitya or deity. | t.t. |
| 1926 | vārṣikaśrāddha | [S.] n. annual ancestor ritual held on the death aniversary of the deceased. | t.t. |
| 1873 | vasantapañcamī | [S.] var. vasaṃtapaṃcamī; also śrīpañcamī, mañjupañcamī or gurupañcamī; n. 1) 5th lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month Māgha, marking the beginning of spring. 2) festival held on that day. | t.t. |
| 2085 | vāsila bāki | n. collections and balances. | t.t. |
| 2006 | vāsilāta | var. vāsalāta; annual account balance; a balance sheet of the yearly income and expenditure; record. | t.t. |
| 2950 | vāskaṭa | [fr. E. waistcoat] var. vāskaṭ; n. 1) a kind of thick cotton cloth used in making coats, waistcoats. 2) waistcoat. | t.t. |
| 1901 | vijayādaśamī | [S. vijayadaśamī] var. vijayādasaĩ; n. lit. "the victorious tenth"; tenth lunar day of the bright fortnight of the autumn month Āśvina, climactic day of the Dasaĩ festival. | t.t. |
| 2785 | vimāna | n. an architectural feature of a temple or chariot; a structure securing the inner sanctum of a temple or chariot. In documents E_2253_0015A~E_2253_0015G and E_2254_0001A~E_2254_0001J, this term refers to the structure decorated with gilt metal panels built around the chariot of Matsyendranātha in Patan. | t.t. |
| 2887 | viniyoga | [S.] n. a formula mentioning ṛṣi, metre and deity of a mantra. | t.t. |
| 2630 | virāma | [S.] var. virām; n. a diacritic mark placed below a consonant to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter. | t.t. |
| 2245 | viṣṭa | t.t. | |
| 2424 | vrata | [S.] n. 1) ritual observance. 2) fasting on occasion of a festival or worshipping a deity. | t.t. |
| 2132 | yathocita uprānta | See uprānta. | t.t. |
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