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Accimukhī

Person

Also known as Accīmukhī

龍王達多羅陀之女、菩薩彌龍王之異母妹,能口噴烈焰、吐出劇毒,曾協助救出被弄蛇人阿藍婆那所擒的兄長,後世即為比丘尼蓮花色。

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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