The name of a clan in Ceylon. The name is totemistic.

 

This clan was among the tribes which accompanied the Bodhi-tree to Ceylon (Mhv.xix.2).

 

When Aggabodhi I, set up an image of Mahinda on the bank of the Mahindatata, the image was carried by the Taracchā. Cv.xlii.30; see Cv.Trs.i.29, n.2.


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