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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.773

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c21.773

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c21.773](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c21.773)

\*\*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

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