Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c8.300

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The *Therīgāthā*,¹ which contains forty-seven verses ascribed to her, describes not only her present life, but also her past lives. She had been a worker in gold in **Erakaccha** and had committed adultery in that life. As a result she was born in hell for a long time, and, in subsequent births became an ape, a goat, an ox, a hermaphrodite slave and a carter's daughter. In this last birth she was sold to a merchant in payment of her father's debts. When she was sixteen, the merchant's son, Giridāsa, fell in love with her and married her. He had already one wife, and the new one caused dissension between her and her husband. Therefore it was that in this life she was hated by her husbands. This account of her sojourn in saṃsāra was related by Isidāsī in response to a request by one of her fellow-nuns, Bodhī.²