Velli [dial.?] is a word peculiar to the Jātaka. At one passage it is expld by the Commentary as "vedi" (i. e. rail, cornice), where it is applied to the slender waist of a woman (cp. vilāka & vilaggita): J vi.456. At most of the other passages it is expld as "a heap of gold": thus at J v.506 (verse: velli -- vilāka -- majjhā; C.: "ettha vellī ti rāsi vilākamajjhā ti vilagga -- majjhā uttattaghana -- suvaṇṇa -- rāsi -- ppabhā c' eva tanu -- dīgha -- majjhā ca"), and vi.269 (verse: kañcana -- velli -- viggaha; C.: "suvaṇṇa -- rāsi -- sassirīka -- sarīrā"). At v.398 in the same passage as vi.269 expld in C. as "kañcana -- rūpakasadisa -- sarīrā"). The idea of "golden" is connected with it throughout.