Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s3.500

v2.c8.s3.500

2. Revaī Wife of merchant Mahāsayaa(2) of Rāyagiha.¹ She murdered all her twelve co-wives in order to enjoy pleasures all alone with her husband and to appropriate their wealth. She developed a habit to take meat and wine.² In view of ban on slaughter in the city she arranged for the supply of beef of two calves daily from her parents' house.³ After death she went to hell.⁴ See also Mahāsayaa(2).
1. Upa. 46, SthA. p. 509. | 3. Ibid. 49.
2. Upa. 48. | 4. Ibid. 52.