Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c9.1372

v1.c9.1372

1. Ubbarī.—A princess. In the time of Kakusandha she was a hen. Having heard a monk repeat a formula of meditation, she was born as a royal princess and named Ubbarī. Seeing a heap of maggots in the privy, she meditated thereon and entered the first jhāna and was born in the Brahma-world. In the time of Gotama Buddha she was reborn as a sow in Rājagaha, and the Buddha, seeing her, smiled and related her past to Ānanda. Later she was born in the royal household in Suvaṇṇabhūmi, then, in succession, in a horse-dealer’s house in Suppāraka and in a mariner’s household in Kāvīra. Then she was reborn in a nobleman’s house in Anurādhapura, and again in the village of Bokkanta in South Ceylon, as the daughter of a householder named Sumana. She was called Sumanā, after her father. When her father moved to the village of Mahāmuni in Dīghavāpi, Lakuṇṭaka Atimbara, prime minister of Duṭṭhagāmaṇi, met her and married her, and she went to live in Mahāpunna.