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Yaśodharā or Yashodhara (Pali: Yasodharā, Sanskrit: यशोधरा, romanized: Yaśodharā, originally known as Bhaddakaccānā or Bhadrakātyāyani was the wife of Prince Siddhartha (until he left his home to become a śramaṇa), the mother of Rāhula, and the niece of Mahaprajapati Gautami [2] [3] [4] She later became a Bhikkhunī and is considered an arahatā.
To expiate the queen from her sinful act, King Yashodhara takes his mothers advice and decides to perform a symbolic sacrifice of a cock made of flour, to please the gods. But the cock comes to life and crows at its time of death. For committing the sin of violence, Yashodhara and his mother are reborn as animals.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Yashodhara Kaviyam is one of the five minor epic poems of Sangham literature. [1] [2]
Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara (බිම්බා දේවී හෙවත් යශෝධරා) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala language epic, biographical drama film written and directed by professor Sunil Ariyaratne. [2] This historical biographical film depicts the life of princess Yashodhara, the wife of Prince Siddhartha.
Poems dealing with the subject also appear in Old Gujarati, Old Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada languages. [8] The motif of a high-ranking woman with a low-born paramour, who murders her husband, is a prominent theme in Yashas-tilaka. This motif occurs in several other Indian texts. [9]
Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri (born 1965) is a poet residing in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She produced collections of Bengali poetry. She was awarded the Krittibas Puraskar in 1998 by the Krittibas Patrika. [1] She is also the recipient of Anita Sunil Kumar Basu Smriti Puraskar by Bangla Academy Kolkata (2006) and Sahitya Setu Puraskar 2007
Sarachchandra started his career as a teacher at St. Peter's College in Colombo 4.He then joined the publishing company Lake House in an administrative position. 1933, gained admission to the Ceylon University College and offered Pali, Sanskrit and Sinhala for the first degree and passed out in 1936 with a first class and sat for the Ceylon Civil Service examination (because of his parents ...
As a bilingual poet who writes both in Sinhala and English, his ability to permit his fluency in each language establishes him as unique among Sri Lankan English poets. In this study, Wikkramasinha"s two well-known poems are taken in order to experiment the linguistic features of his use of language.