Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.415

v1.c21.415

Sometimes, as in the case of Nandiya, who built the great monastery at Isipatana, a mansion would appear in Tāvatiṃsa, when an earth-dweller did a good deed capable of obtaining for him birth in this deva-world; but this mansion would remain unoccupied till his human life came to an end.²⁷ There were evidently no female devas among the Thirty-three. Both Māyā and Gopikā (q.v.) became devaputtas when born in Tāvatiṃsa. The women there were probably the attendants of the devas.²⁸