Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.50

c7.s1.50

From the Dhammapada Commentary (Vol. I, p. 96) we know that the village of Kalavāla was in the Magadharattha. We are told that one of the daughters of a Śākya chief by a slave girl, proves how proud and aristocratic the Śākyas were. Some of the Śākya ladies, who became nuns, have left behind them poems and songs that are preserved in the Psalms of the Sisters: Tissā (Pss.S., pp. 12-13), Abhirūpanandā (Ibid., pp. 22-23), Mittā (Ibid., p. 29) and Sundarinandā (Ibid., pp. 55-57).