Pāli Dictionary

Anulā3

Person

A queen of Sri Lanka who reigned for four months after poisoning her husband King Coranāga, then successively murdered a series of further husbands before being killed herself by Kuṭakaṇṇatissa.

Wife of Coranāga and Queen of Sri Lanka for four months (in A.D. 12-16). She was a lewd woman and killed her husband that she might marry Mahācūḷa’s son, Tissa. She soon got tired of him and poisoned him. Then, in succession, she had as husbands Siva, a palace guard; Vaṭuka, a Tamil carpenter; Tissa, a wood-carrier; the Damiḷa Niliya, a palace priest — all of whom she removed by poisoning. The last one she killed because she wished to live indiscriminately with thirty-two palace guards.

In the end she was killed by Kuṭakaṇṇatissa (Mhv.xxxiv.16-34; Dpv.xix.50 ff).

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