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  • 太子韋山達羅(Vessantara)之妻,攜二子隨其流放林中,孩子被施捨給一名乞丐婆羅門後,她自己也被韋山達羅施捨給喬裝婆羅門的帝釋天,此為《韋山達羅本生》中最後的考驗。

  • 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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