Piyā
PersonDie älteste der fünf Töchter des dritten Okkāka, die nach einer Hautkrankheit in den Wald verbannt wurde, heiratete den ebenso erkrankten König Rāma von Bārāṇasī und wurde durch ihre zweiunddreißig Kinder zur Stammmutter der Koliyer.
The eldest of the five daughters of the third Okkāka, her mother being Hatthā. She developed a skin disease, and her brothers, not wishing to be near her, took her into the forest and left her near a pond. There she met Rāma, king of Bārāṇasī, who, afflicted with a similar disease, was living in exile in the forest. After hearing Piyā’s story, he married her, and they had thirty-two children, who became the ancestors of the Koliyā. SNA.i.352 f., 355 f; DA.i.258; MT.131.
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