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Padampa Sanggye died 1117? (pha dam pa sangs rgyas) was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasi?ha, the land of Bebala; this may correspond to a port city in the modern day area of Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India. According to the Blue Annals, his father Viryavarman was from a family of jewel merchants; others have suggested that his father was a sea captain. Dampa's mother, Barasaha, was from a family of incense-makers. He is said to have been a "seven-birth Brahmin" (skye ba bdun pa), an epithet for one born as a Brahmin seven births in a row.