Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources

Pūrṇa

Role: village head-man; father of Mahaushadha · First appears: Chapter VIII

In Chapter VIII, Pūrṇa was head-man of Pūrṇakatshtshha, where his wife gave birth to their son, Mahaushadha. At his mother’s request, the boy was named Mahaushadha at his birth-feast. Later, Janaka appointed Mahaushadha as his minister, granted Pūrṇa a village, and bade him watch over the child.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Mahaushadha was born to Pūrṇa’s wife, and was named at his mother’s request.(Chapter VIII · 📍 Pūrṇakatshtshha)
  • Janaka appointed Mahaushadha his minister and granted Pūrṇa a village.(Chapter VIII · 📍 Pūrṇakatshtshha)
    • With: Janaka Mahaushadha
    • “Then the king wrote to him and made him come to him, conferred upon him the village, and bade him henceforth carefully watch over the child”

Chapter VIII

  • child: Mahaushadha “In his own country, in the hill-village Pūrṇakatshtshha, a son named Mahaushadha was about to be born to the head-man, Pūrṇa.”
  • married with the mother of Mahaushadha (Chapter 8) “The father replied that he was not sure that the king did not mean to punish him, the demand being of such an unheard of kind.”

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