Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.773
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c21.773
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**Tissarakkhā.**—The second queen of Asoka; he married her four years before his death. She was very jealous of the attention paid by Asoka to the Bodhi-tree, and caused it to be killed by means of poisonous thorns.¹