A Nága maiden, daughter of the Nága King, Varuna.

 

When she learned that her mother, Vimalá, longed for the heart of Vidhura, she determined to get for herself a husband who would satisfy her mother's craving. So she went to the Himálaya and having spread a bed of fragrant flowers, lay thereon and sang. Vessavana's nephew, a yakkha, Punnaka, heard her and offered himself as her husband. She took him to her father who agreed to give him Irandatí, if he could bring Vidhura's heart. When Punnaka fulfilled this condition, as described in the Vidhura-pandita Játaka, Irandatí became his wife. J.vi.263-327.


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