Vedehiputta untranslated

Vedehiputta. An epithet constantly used in connection with Ajātasattu. Buddhaghosa explains it by saying that Videhī here means a wise woman and not the Videha lady, because Ajātasattu’s mother was the daughter, not of a king of Videha, but of a Kosala king (e.g., Ja.iii.121; iv.342; she was called Kosaladevī, e.g., Ja.ii.403) Vedehiputto ti, vedehī ti paṇḍitā dhivacanaṁ etaṁ; paṇḍititthiyā putto ti attho (SN­a.i.120); cf. DN­a.i.139.

According to the Nirayāvalī Sūtra, (Jacobi, Jaina Sūtras, SBE.xxii. Introd., p.xiii) there was, among the wives of Bimbisāra, Callanā, daughter of Ceṭaka, a rājā of Vaiśāli, whose sister Triśālā was the mother of Mahā Vīra. She was also called Śrībhadrā.

According to the Tibetan Dulvā (Rockhill: Life of the Buddha, 63f), Ajātasattu’s mother was Vāsavī, daughter of Siṁha of Vaiśāli. It was foretold that Vāsavī’s son would kill his father. Cf. Vedehikā, Vedehamuni.