Tribes in Ancient India c53.101

c53.101

There is a different version of this account in the Viḍūḍakā-vadānam of the Avadānakalpalatā.³ According to this, Viḍūḍaka (= Viḍūḍabha) slaughtered seventy-seven thousand Śākyas and stole one thousand boys and girls. One day when he was eulogising his own prowess in his court, the stolen Śākya girls said, ‘Wherefore this pride when death is inevitable to a man bound by action?’ The king heard this, became angry, and ordered his men to cut off the hands of the girls.