[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c13.244 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c13.244 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c13.244 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c13.244](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13.244) Khujjuttarā.—She was born of a nurse in the house of the banker Ghosita,¹ and later became a slave of Queen Sāmāvatī. The queen gave her daily the eight pieces of money allowed to her by the king for the purchase of flowers. Khujjuttarā bought flowers with four pieces from the gardener Sumana, the remaining four pieces she kept. One day the Buddha visited Sumana, and Khujjuttarā, having heard the Buddha preach to him, became a sotāpanna. That day she spent the whole amount on flowers. The queen asked her how she had obtained so many, and she told her the whole story. From that time Sāmāvatī showed Khujjuttarā all honour, bathed her in perfumed water, and heard the Dhamma from her. Khujjuttarā became, as it were, a mother to Sāmāvatī, and going regularly to hear the Dhamma, would return and preach it to her and her five hundred attendant women. Under the instruction of Khujjuttarā they all became sotāpannas. When Sāmāvatī expressed a desire to see the Buddha, Khujjuttarā suggested that she should pierce holes in the walls of the palace and gaze on the Buddha as he passed along the street. After the death of Sāmāvatī, Khujjuttarā seems to have spent all her time in religious works, listening to the preaching of the Dhamma. The Buddha declared her foremost among lay women by reason of her extensive knowledge (bahussutānaṃ).² - [Previous: v1.c13.243](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13.243) - [Next: v1.c13.245](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13.245) - [Up: v1.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13.244](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c13.244) · Pramāṇa