བསླབ་པ་ལྔའ་ཕན་ཡན་གྱ་མད notes.5
The Benefits of the Five Precepts notes.5
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5. This couple, whose names mean “father of Nakula” and “mother of Nakula” respectively, is also mentioned in “The Chapters on Foremost Persons” in The Book of the Ones of the Aṅguttaranikāya, in which Nakulapitā and Nakulamātā are described as the foremost in faithfulness (vissāsika) among the Buddha’s lay disciples. For an English translation, see Bhikkhu Bodhi 2012, pp. 112–13. For the Pali text and an alternative English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato, see “Chaṭṭhavagga,” SuttaCentral, 2018.