Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2569
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.2569
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The Apadāna (quoted also in ThigA.) gives some more details about her. She had been a daughter of a Khattiya family in the time of Phussa Buddha and had done many good deeds in order to be beautiful in later births. As a result of the abuse of the nun (referred to above) she had been born in hell and later had, for ten thousand lives, been a courtesan. In Kassapa Buddha’s time she had practised celibacy.⁶