Tribes in Ancient India c33.144

c33.144

Some of the Kosambians entertained a great respect for the Buddha and the Buddhist faith, and were converted; while we are told that others went so far as to enter the Order and attain arahatship,—e.g. Gavaccha the Less.⁹ At the time of the Buddha, Sāmāvatī Therī was born in a rich householder’s family at Kauśāmbī. She was the favourite friend of Queen Sāmāvatī, wife of King Udayana. After the death of the queen, she was very much grieved, and became a bhikkhunī. Her grief was so bitter that she was unable to attain the *ariyamagga*. Afterwards listening to the instruction of Ānanda, she became free from sorrow by developing insight, and became an arahat.¹⁰