Accimukhī

Overview

Accimukhī is Bhūridatta’s sister by another mother in Jātaka 543. Wanting to join the search for him, she turns herself into a small frog and travels concealed in her companion’s matted hair. At the confrontation with the snake-charmer she croaks three times, comes out onto his shoulder and drops three beads of poison into his hand before returning to her hiding place.

The demonstrator warns that the poison would destroy vegetation on the ground, stop rain if thrown into the sky, or kill aquatic life in water. It is disposed of through three specially prepared pits containing drugs, cow dung and heavenly medicines, producing an intense fire before being extinguished. The charmer is frightened into releasing Bhūridatta. Accimukhī then appears beside her freed brother; her transformation serves this particular rescue rather than an unrelated generic frog-spirit tradition.

Origins & earliest records

South Asian Buddhist Jātaka narrative tradition

Records & interpretation

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Selected bibliography

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   The Jātaka, Volume VI

   E. B. Cowell and W. H. D. Rouse (historical English translation)

   Jātaka 543, pp. 101–105; hosted-volume publication date not independently verified. Narrative prose and verse distinguished from a first-attestation claim.

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1. Historical primary-text translationThe Jātaka, Volume VI — Jātaka 543, pp. 101–105Research access: 2026-10-05

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