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Sumanā15

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Anurādhapura 的一名女子,被丈夫逐出家門、歷經磨難後,先後得帝釋天與一位天神相助,最終被國王立為正妃。

A woman of the Mahāvālukavīthi in Anurādhapura. She spent much time in the monastery and was sent away in anger by her husband. She starved for seven days, and on the way back to her house from Mahāgāma, where she was married, gave some food, which Sakka provided for her, to Mahādhammadinna Thera of Talangapabbata, at Nigrodhasālakhanda. Later, another deity took her in a cart to Gulapūvatintini, near Anurādhapura. The king, hearing of her, made her his chief queen. Ras.ii.49 f.

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