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vāsavadattā

vāsava—dattā f. N. of various women (esp. of the wife of Udayana, king of Vatsa and daughter of king Caṇḍa-mahā-sena of Ujjayinī [[Kathās.]] or of king Pradyota [[Ratnāv.]], to whom she offered herself after having been betrothed by her father to Saṃjaya [[Mālatīm.]]; and of the heroine of Subandhu's novel, who is represented to have been betrothed by her father to Puṣpa-ketu, but carried off by Kandarpa-ketu)

the story of Vāsava-dattā, [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 87], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.] (esp. as narrated in Subandhu's tale)