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Cellanā

Person Record
Klatt, Johannes (2016), p 379. | work record
Label Cellanā, wife of Bimbisāra (Śreṇika)
Generic Name
  1. Cellanā
Variants
  1. Cellaṇā (Generic Name)

Sources

  1. Klatt, Johannes (2016), p 379. | work record
Honorific or Epithet
  1. devī
Religious Status
  1. Householder female (gṛhastha kī patnī)
Gender
  1. Female (strī)
Marital Status
  1. Married (vivāhita)
Family Relationships
  1. Wife of: Śreṇika (Bimbisāra), king of Magadha, at the time of the Buddha and Mahāvīra, disciple of Mahāvīra (c. Vi.Saṃ. - 542 to -470)
  2. Daughter of: Ceṭaka, father of Cellanā (wife of king Śreṇika)
  3. Son: Ajātaśatru (Kūṇika), king of Magadha, son of Bimbisāra (Śreṇika, king of Magadha, at the time of Buddha and Mahāvīra), father of Udāyi (about Vīra 1-60)

Sources

  1. Klatt, Johannes (2016), p 379. | work record
  2. Klatt, Johannes (2016), p 379. | work record
  1. Jacobi, Hermann (1884), pp Introduction, p. XV. | work record
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