Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.69
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.69
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The story was related in reference to the wife of a landowner of Sāvatthi. Husband and wife were on their way to collect some debts when they were waylaid by robbers. The robber chief, wishing to possess the wife for her beauty, planned to kill the husband. The wife expressed her determination to commit suicide if her husband were killed, and they were both released. The she-elephant of the Jātaka was the landowner's wife.¹