Accimukhī
PersonAlso known as Accīmukhī
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.
v.l. Accīmukhī.– A Nāga princess, daughter of Dhataraṭṭha, the Nāga king. She was half-sister to the Bodhisatta Bhūridatta and helped his brother Sudassana to rescue the Bodhisatta from the clutches of the snake-charmer Ālambāna.
She could shoot flames from her mouth and spit the deadliest poison.
The story is related in the Bhūiridatta Jātaka (J.vi.157 ff).
In the present age she was the Bhikkhuṇī Uppalavaṇṇā (J.vi.219).
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