Blurb:

This paper discusses the role of the Buddha’s wife, Yasodharā/Rāhulamātā,
in Pāli Jātakas. Noting her continued popularity in South and Southeast Asian
Buddhism, it considers her path to liberation seen as a composite whole,
through many lifetimes, and considers some of the literary implications of
this multiple depiction. The intention of this paper is to initiate more discussion
about this figure as a sympathetic and central presence in Southern Buddhist
text and practice.