The young weaver (Chapter 011)
Role: weaver · First appears: Chapter XI
In Chapter XI, Kṛiśā Gautamī accepted the young weaver’s proposal at a hill village, and they married. When she gave birth to their son, he ordered her to kill him; after she threw the child into boiling oil, he ordered her to take out and eat his flesh. Once his rage had passed, he was remorseful and overcome by sleep, and Kṛiśā Gautamī fled with as much food as she could carry.
Relationship record
Life events
- Kṛiśā Gautamī accepted the young weaver’s proposal, and they married.(Chapter XI · 📍 a hill village)
- With: Kṛiśā Gautamī
- “Although at first she opposed the idea, yet at last she gave in, and the marriage took place.”
- Kṛiśā Gautamī’s child was born, and the weaver ordered her to kill him.(Chapter XI)
- With: Kṛiśā Gautamī The son of Kṛiśā Gautamī and the weaver (Chapter 011)
- “When her child was born she opened the door, and as soon as her husband came in she joyfully told him of the birth of their son.”
- Kṛiśā Gautamī threw her newborn son into boiling oil and later ate his flesh under her husband’s coercion.(Chapter XI)
- With: Kṛiśā Gautamī The son of Kṛiśā Gautamī and the weaver (Chapter 011)
- “Overcome by this cruelty, she threw the child into the boiling oil. When it was cooked he ordered her to take it out and eat its flesh.”
- Kṛiśā Gautamī fled from her husband.(Chapter XI)
- With: Kṛiśā Gautamī
- “When her husband’s rage was appeased, and he was full of remorse and overcome by sleep, Kṛiśā Gautamī took as much food as she could carry, and went away.”
Chapter XI
- married with Kṛiśā Gautamī “yet at last she gave in, and the marriage took place.”
- child: The son of Kṛiśā Gautamī and the weaver (Chapter 011) “she joyfully told him of the birth of their son.”
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Extracted from the original text of Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources. Made with Rho MD.