444 SUBJECT INDEX
Vipassaná (insight), 91, 317–321
development of, 411ff.
Vipatti (unfavourable birth), 216
Virati (abstinence), 182, 183
Viriya (effort, energy, perserverance),
17, 116, 315, 337
as iddhipáda, 134n.
perfection or páramì, 350– 351
Virtue
four virtues, 119
see also Sìla
Vishnu, 23
Visuddhi (purification), 317
citta-v. (of mind), 307
maggámaggañáóadassana-v. (of
knowing what is path and not-
path), 318n.
mánadassana-v. (of mind and in-
sight), 319n.
sìla, 301
Vivaraóa (revelation), 357
Vohára desaná (conventional teach-
ing), 151
Void
food as, 325, 326
Nibbána called, 326n.
suffering as, 46, 176
Volition, 160, 192, 198, 248
kamma, 193
skillful and unskillful, 193
Vriyiddhipáda (means of accomplish-
ment), 351ff.
Vyápáda (ill will), 314
W
Wheel of Life, 246
see also Paþicca Samuppáda
Wife, seven kinds of, 93ff.
Wisdom
arose, 20
beyond morality, 159
endowed with, 131
faculty of, 183
higher, 49
knowing one’s own, 108
kowledge, insight, light and, 50ff.
morality, concentration and, 136
purified by, 119
Womanly charms, 95ff.
Y
Yakkha, 23
Yamakapáþiháriya (“twin miracle” or
“twin wonder”), 66n., 112, 167