[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c35.1611 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.1611 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.1611 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c35.1611](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.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 - [Previous: v2.c35.1610](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.1610) - [Next: v2.c35.1612](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.1612) - [Up: v2.c35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.1611](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c35.1611) · Pramāṇa