 Visakha and her family later moved to the city of Saketa (present day Ayodhya) in the kingdom of Kosala.Visakha married her husband Punnavaddhana when she was sixteen and then moved to Savatthi to live with his family.She famously converted her father-in-law, a wealthy treasurer named Migāra, to Buddhism, giving her the nickname Migāramāta"," literally "Migāra's mother".