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  • 太子韦山达罗(Vessantara)之妻,携二子随其流放林中,孩子被施舍给一名乞丐婆罗门后,她自己也被韦山达罗施舍给乔装婆罗门的帝释天,此为《韦山达罗本生》中最后的考验。

  • The devoted wife of Prince Vessantara who followed him into forest exile with their two children and, after those children were given away to a beggar, was herself offered by Vessantara to Sakka disguised as a brahmin, in the culminating trial of the Vessantara Jātaka.

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