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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.477

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c16.477

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c16.477](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.477)

Cāpā Therī (v.l. Chāvā).—A trapper's daughter in Vaṅkahāra who became the wife of the Ājīvaka Upaka and bore him a son, Subhadda. When Upaka, unable to bear his wife's taunts, renounced the world and joined the Order, she followed him to Sāvatthi, and there, having become a nun, attained arahantship.¹

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