KuvaṇṇÄ
v.l. KuvenÄ«. A Yakkha maiden, whom Vijaya married on his arrival in Sri Lanka. With her assistance he killed the Yakkhas at their feast in SirÄ«sivatthu. Later Vijaya discarded her in favour of a royal maiden from MadhurÄ, and she left, with her two children JÄ«vahattha and DipellÄ, for LankÄpura, where she was slain as a spy. Her children fled to Malaya and their descendants became the Pulindas (Mhv.vii.9-68).
Kuvaá¹‡á¹‡Ä had as companion a slave called SisapÄtÄ« (SÄ«sapÄtikÄ). MT.255.
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