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saw Sri lying dead, they reported the matter to king Pūsyanandi. He arrested the queen and sent her to the place of execution. She was to be impaled and that is where Gautama saw her.
The ascetic Mahavira told Gautama that she would go to hell as a hell-being and after many transmigrations, she would be born in the city of Gangapura as a swan. This would be followed by another birth in the same city in a family of merchants when she would seek liberation.
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