Note 2 — IX. MAHĀKĀŚYAPA AND BHADRĀ.1

There lived in Takshaśilā a very rich householder, to whom his wife bore a daughter of great beauty. As the child’s eyes were like blue lotus blossoms, and as she exhaled a lotus-like fragrance, while the colour of her body resembled that of the lotus stamen, her relations gave her the name of Utpalavarṇā.2 As her father had no son, he determined that, when his daughter was grown up, he would give her in marriage only to one who, on becoming his son-in-law, would take up his abode with him.