The ancient cosmology maintained that the cosmos was encircled by an atmosphere of fierce winds of impenetrable intensity (see Lamotte, p. 255, n. 15).

Literally, a wheel or disk of wind. This term is found in Buddhist cosmology, where a world system is built on top of various layers, one of which is a vāyumaṇḍala, or a cosmic disk of wind; however, in The Prophecy for Bhadra the Illusionist, the term is used to describe the ten winds that will contribute to the conflagration and destruction of the trichiliocosm at the end of an eon. Also translated as “wind.”