Girigāma
PlaceUn village au Sri Lanka où un novice volant nommé Tissa, en voyant la fille du forgeron local se baigner et chanter avec ses amies, fut tellement charmé qu’il perdit son pouvoir de vol.
A village in Sri Lanka. A young novice named Tissa of Pañcaggalalena, travelling through the air, saw the daughter of the smith of Girigāma bathing in a lotus pond with five of her friends, and heard them singing aloud. He was so fascinated by her that he lost his power of flight. SNA.i.70; ApA.i.128.
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