Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c33.917
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c33.917
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Rohiṇī Jātaka (No. 45).—Once the Bodhisatta was the Lord High Treasurer of Benares and he had a slave-woman named Rohiṇī. One day, when Rohiṇī was pounding rice, her mother lay down near her and flies settled on her and stung her. When she asked her daughter to drive them away, the latter lifted her pestle and hit her with it, thinking thus to kill the flies. But instead of the flies she killed her mother.