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					Giri,[Vedic giri,Obulg.gora mountain] a mountain; as a rule only in cpds,by itself (poetical) only at Vism.206 (in enumn of the 7 large mountains).
  --agga mountain top,in giraggasamajja N.of a festival celebrated yearly at Rājagaha,orig.a festival on the mountain top (cp.Dial.I.8 & Vin.Texts III,71).Vin.II,107,150; IV,85,267; J.III,538; DhA.I,89.The BSk.version is girivaggu-samāgama AvŚ II.24; --kannikā (f.) N.of a plant (Clitoria ternatea) Vism.173; DhA.I,383 (v.l.kaṇṇikā cp.Sk.°karnī;) --gabbhara=°guhā Sn.416; --guhā a mountain cleft,a rift,a gorge; always in formula pabbata kandara g°,therefore almost equivalent to kandara,a grotto or cave Vin.II,146; D.I,71= M.I,269,274,346,440=A.II,210=Pug.59 (as giriṁ guhaṁ); A.IV,437; expl.at DA.I,210:dvinnaṁ pabbatānaṁ antaraṁ ekasmiṁ yeva vā ummagga-sadisaṁ mahā-vivaraṁ; --bbaja (nt.) [Etym.uncertain,according to Morris J.P.T.S.1884,79 to vaja “a pen,” cp.Marāthī vraja “a station of cowherds,” Hindi vraja “a cow-pen”; the Vedic giribhraj° (RV.X.68.1) “aus Bergen hervorbrechend” (Roth) suggests relation to bhraj,to break=bhañj=Lat.frango]=°guhā,a mountain cave or gorge,serving as shelter & hiding place J.III,479 (trsl.by Morris Loc.cit.a hill-run,a cattle-run on the hills); V,260 (sīhassa,a lion’s abode) expld as kañcanaguhā ibid.(for kandara-guhā? cp.Kern,Toev.p.130).S.II,185.Also N.for Rājagaha Sn.408; Dpvs.V,5; in its Sk.form Girivraja,which Beal,Buddh.Records II.149 expls as “the hill-surrounded,” cp.ib.II.158 (=Chin.Shan-Shing),161; see also Cunningham,Ancient Geogr.462.It does not occur in the Avadānas; --rājā king of the mountains,of Mount Sineru Miln.21,224; --sikhara mountain top,peak VvA.4; (kañcana°,shining).(Page 251)