Tissarakkha

Tissarakkhā was the fifth queen of Ashoka; he married her four years before his death.[1] She was very jealous of the attention paid by Asoka to the Bodhi-tree, and caused it to be killed by means of poisonous thorns.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Schumann, Hans Wolfgang (1989). The Historical Buddha: The Times, Life, and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 60. ISBN 81-208-1817-2.
  2. ↑ "CHAPTER XX_The Nibbana Of The Thera". Mahavamsa, chap. 20, 4f.


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