Pāli Dictionary

Piyā

Person

L’aînée des cinq filles du troisième Okkāka qui, exilée dans la forêt après avoir contracté une maladie de peau, épousa le roi Rāma de Bārāṇasī, atteint du même mal, et devint, par leurs trente-deux enfants, l’ancêtre des Koliyas.

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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