ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.125
The Limits of Life notes.125
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125. According to the Tib. (dge slong ma dgra bcom pa bsad pas). The Skt. reads bhiksunīṃ vārhantīṃ ghātayitvā, “having slain a nun or an arhantī.” No such incident is mentioned in the extant Pāli canonical accounts about Devadatta. Neither the Skt. text nor the Tib. translation of the Āps mentions the name Utpalavarṇā. But this incident, the beating of the bhikkhunī and arhantī Utpalavarṇā by Devadatta, is well known from the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya, a comparatively late Vinaya; see Lamotte 1988, 657–59. On Devadatta and his murder of the nun Utpalavarṇā in connection with the “sins of immediate retribution” (ānantaryakarma), see Silk 2009, 236, n. 6. For a summary of the episode itself in the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya, see Panglung 1981, 123.