An epithet constantly used in connection with Ajātasattu.

Buddhaghosa explains it ¹ by saying that Videhī here means a wise woman and not the Videha lady, because Ajātasattu’s mother was the daughter, not of a king of Videha, but of a Kosala king.²

According to the Nirayāvalī Sūtra,³ there was, among the wives of Bimbisāra, Callanā, daughter of Cetaka, a rājā of Vaisāli, whose sister Trisālā was the mother of Mahāvīra. She was also called Srībhadrā.

According to the Tibetan Dulvā,⁴ Ajatasattu’s mother was Vāsavī, daughter of Simha of Vaisāli. It was foretold that Vāsavī’s son would kill his father.

Cf. Vedehikā, Vedehamuṇi.