Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.1611

v2.c35.1611

Vihāradevī.—Wife of Kākavaṇṇatissa and mother of Duṭṭhagāmaṇi and Saddhātissa. She was the daughter of Tissa, king of Kalyāṇi, and was cast adrift in a boat on the ocean in order to appease the sea-gods in their wrath against Tissa for having killed an arahant. Her name was Devī, but because she came ashore near the monastery of Tolaka¹ (?) she was called Vihāradevī.² When with her first child, she longed to eat a honeycomb one usabha in length and to drink the water in which had been washed the sword used in cutting off the head of Nandasārathi, chief of Eḷāra’s warriors.³ When she was the second time with child, she wished to lie under a campaka-tree in bloom and inhale its fragrance.⁴