PiyÄ
The eldest of the five daughters of the third OkkÄka, her mother being HatthÄ. She developed a skin disease, and her brothers, not wishing to be near her, took her into the forest and left her near a pond. There she met RÄma, king of Benares, who, afflicted with a similar disease, was living in exile in the forest. After hearing PiyÄ’s story, he married her, and they had thirty-two children, who became the ancestors of the Koliyans. SNA.i.352f., 355f.; DA.i.258; MT.131.
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