• Hemavatā

Hemavatā 1. A river (J.iv.437, 438). See the Bhallātiya Jātaka.

Hemavatā 2. A heretical sect in Jambudīpa (Mhv.v.12; Dpv. v.54).

They were so called because they lived on Mount Himavata (Rockhill, Life of Buddha, p.184).

They held:

• that a Bodhisatta was not an ordinary mortal,
• that even a tīrthaka could have the five abhiññā,
• that the puggala is separate from the khandhas. Ibid., 190.