Kapila’s unnamed wife (Chapter 009)

Role: wife of Kapila · First appears: Chapter IX

In Chapter IX, Kapila’s unnamed wife is described as his wife after he married in his own degree; their daughter, Kapilabhadrā, is called extremely beautiful. When she heard of the Goddess of Virgins, Kapila’s wife told Kapilabhadrā to go and make an offering. Around that time, she and Kapila betrothed their daughter to Nyagrodhaja (Kāśyapa).

Relationship record

Life events

• Kapilabhadrā’s parents betrothed her to Nyagrodhaja.(Chapter IX · 📍 Kapila)
  • With: Nyagrodha Nyagrodhaja (Kāśyapa) Kapila Kapilabhadrā (Bhadrā)
  • “Thereupon the parents betrothed their daughter to the Brahman youth Nyagrodhaja, having previously bathed and put on white garments, and the prayers for good fortune and happy results having been uttered by the Brahmans.”

Chapter IX

• married with Kapila “In it lived a very rich Brahman named Kapila, to whom there had been born, after he had married in his own degree, an extremely beautiful daughter.”
• child: Kapilabhadrā (Bhadrā) “Among others, the wife of the Brahman Kapila heard of this, and told her daughter to go and make an offering to the Goddess of Virgins.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources. Made with Rho MD.