Virūḷhaka

E950803

Buddhist deity Guardian King One of the Four Great Kings

Virūḷhaka is a Buddhist guardian king (one of the Four Great Kings) associated with the southern direction and the protection of the world.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Virūḷhaka canonical	1

Statements (32)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Buddhist deity ⓘ Guardian King ⓘ One of the Four Great Kings ⓘ
associatedWith	kumbhāṇḍas ⓘ yakṣas ⓘ
associatedWithConcept	defense of the Dharma ⓘ guardianship of the world ⓘ protection ⓘ
associatedWithDirection	south ⓘ
cosmologicalLevel	lowest heaven of the Kāmadhātu ⓘ
cosmologicalRealm	Cāturmahārājika heaven ⓘ
counterpartOf	Virūḍhaka NERFINISHED ⓘ
directionalGroup	Lokapālas NERFINISHED ⓘ
directionalRole	guardian of the south ⓘ
duty	guarding the Dharma ⓘ protecting the southern continent ⓘ
iconographicAttribute	often depicted as a warrior king ⓘ often depicted holding a sword ⓘ often depicted in armor ⓘ
languageForm	Pali NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ
memberOf	Four Great Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ
position	King of the Southern Direction NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ
role	guardian of the southern quarter ⓘ protector of the world ⓘ
scriptureMention	Anguttara Nikāya NERFINISHED ⓘ Dīgha Nikāya NERFINISHED ⓘ Pali Canon NERFINISHED ⓘ Saṃyutta Nikāya NERFINISHED ⓘ
worshipContext	Buddhist devotional practices ⓘ temple guardian imagery ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Virūḷhaka
Description of subject: Virūḷhaka is a Buddhist guardian king (one of the Four Great Kings) associated with the southern direction and the protection of the world.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Virūḍhaka → PaliName → Virūḷhaka ⓘ