Hemavatá 1. A river (J.iv.437, 438). See the Bhallátiya Játaka.
Hemavatá 2. A heretical sect in Jambudípa (Mhv.v.12; Dpv.v.54).
They were so called because they lived on Mount Himavata (Rockhill, Life of Buddha, p.184).
They held that a Bodhisatta was not an ordinary mortal, that even a tírthaka could have the five abhiññá, that the puggala is separate from the khandhas. Ibid., 190.