Pāli Dictionary

Ubbarī3

Person

悲嘆する王が防腐処置を施して寝台の下に安置した美しい王妃で、生前自らの美貌に虚栄心を抱いていたため、糞虫として転生した、ポータリのアッサカ王の妃。

Queen Consort of Assaka, king of Potali in the Kāsi kingdom. She was extremely beautiful and, when she died, the king had her body embalmed and placed in a coffin which was put under his bed. She, however, was born as a dung-worm because she had been intoxicated by her own beauty. The story is related in the Assaka Jātaka. J.ii.155 ff.

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