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  • A Nāga princess, daughter of the Nāga king Dhataraṭṭha and half-sister of the Bodhisatta Bhūridatta, who could breathe flame and spit venom and helped rescue her brother from the snake-charmer Ālambāna; in a later life she was the nun Uppalavaṇṇā.

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