Phusatí

Phusatí

Daughter of the Madda king and chief queen of the Sivi king Sañjaya and mother of Vessantara.

She had been Sudhammá, daughter of Kikí, and was born in Távatimsa because of an offering of sandal wood made by her to Vipassí Buddha. When she left Távatimsa, Sakka gave her ten boons:

to be chief queen,
to have dark eyes,
dark eyebrows,
to be named Phusatí,
to have a son,
to keep a slim figure,
to have firm breasts,
hair always dark,
to have soft skin, and
to save the condemned.

She was called Phusatí because on the day of her birth her body smelt of sandal wood. She was a previous birth of Mahámáyá. J.iv.480 ff., 593; Cyp.i.9.