Dharmika

Role: pheasant · First appears: Chapter XLIX

At the sea-coast, Dharmika and Adharmika were siblings whose bodies were united. Once, Dharmika found an amṛita fruit and, believing it would nourish their shared body, ate it without waking Adharmika. On another occasion, Adharmika ate a poisonous fruit, and both birds became insensible. Affected by the poison, Adharmika vowed, “Wherever I may be born again, there may I be thy antagonist, O enemy and slayer!”

Relationship record

Life events

• Dharmika ate an amṛita fruit without waking Adharmika, believing it would nourish their shared body.(Chapter XLIX · 📍 sea-coast)
  • “He took it out and considered whether he should wake the other or eat the fruit by himself. Reflecting that if he ate it, the body they shared in common would be nourished thereby, he did not wake the other.”
• Adharmika ate a poisonous fruit, and both birds became insensible.(Chapter XLIX · 📍 sea-coast)
  • With: Adharmika
  • “He ate it, and both of the birds became insensible.”
• Adharmika vowed to become Dharmika’s antagonist in a future birth.(Chapter XLIX)
  • With: Adharmika
  • “Wherever I may be born again, there may I be thy antagonist, O enemy and slayer!”

Chapter XLIX

• enemies with Adharmika “Affected by the poisonous fruit, Adharmika said, ‘Wherever I may be born again, there may I be thy antagonist, O enemy and slayer!’”
• siblings with Adharmika (Their bodies are described as united.) “whose bodies were united in their growth.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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