Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1609

v2.c31.1609

Rujā is at first amazed, then tells her father that his councillors are fools, they have not taken reckoning of the whole of their past, but remember only one birth or two; they cannot therefore judge. She herself remembers several births; in one she was a smith in Rājagaha and committed adultery, but that sin remained hidden, like fire covered with ashes, and she was born as a rich merchant’s only son in Kosambī. There she engaged in good works, but, because of previous deeds, she was born after death in the Roruva-niraya and then as a castrated goat in Bheṇṇākaṭa. In her next birth she was a monkey, and then an ox among the Dasaṇṇas; then a hermaphrodite among the Vajjians, and later a nymph in Tāvatiṃsa. Once more her good deeds have come round, and hereafter she will be born only among gods and men. Seven births hence she will be a male god in Tāvatiṃsa, and even now the god Java is gathering a garland for her.