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"Vala" derives from Sanskrit "VALI" which means "wave" and "strength". This is also Slavic "Val" (wave). It also means "turning around" (valana); this is wheel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.182.54.36 (talk) 22:35, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Sorry but according to the german scholar Hermann Oldenberg "Vala" means "cave" (see Subodh Kapoor: Vedas For Beginners, New Delhi 2008, page 198). The same Interpretation is to find in Hermann Graßmann: Wörterbuch zum Rigveda 6th revised and enlarged Edition of Maria Kozianka, Wiesbaden 1996 (german), page 1225 f.) and Sanskrit-English Dictionary Vol.2 by M. Monier-Williams Edited and Revised by Pandit Ishwar Chandra, Varanasi 2008, page 1352). For this interpretation see also Samaveda 2.3.1.22.3 (compare Rigveda 1.59.6b; Sambara = Shambala?) and compare Samaveda 2.5.1.21.2! In this connection is also to see the "Vara" of Yima (vedic: Yama) in Zend-Avesta (James Darmesteter & L.H. Mills (translater), F. Max Müller (Editor): The Zend-Avesta Part I in: The Sacred Books Of The East Vol. IV, Reprinted Delhi 1995, 2006, page 16 f.) --62.153.19.63 (talk) 15:27, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]