Chandrasri

A woman who loved her husband but took on a lover. She appears in the Kathasaritasagara. She was the wife of the vaishya Balavarma, who lived in Pratishtana. She onc esaw the handsome vaishya youth Sheelahara from her window. She lured him into a friend’s house and had her way with him. This became a routine until everyone, including her husband came to know of it. Balavarma once got an illness and was on his deathbed but Chandrasri continued to spend time with her lover. One day, while she was with him, she heard that her husband had died. She left her lover and overcome by remorse jumped into her husband’d pyre as per Kathasaritasagara Shaktiyasholambaka Taranga 2.