Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c26.215

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1. **Nandaka** (*v.l.* **Nanda**) **Thera.**—A householder of **Sāvatthi**.¹ Having entered the Order after hearing a sermon of the Buddha, he developed insight and soon attained arahantship. Once, at the Buddha’s request, he preached a sermon to the nuns; on the first day they became sotāpannas, and, on the second, five hundred of them attained arahantship. From that time the Buddha declared him foremost among exhorters of the nuns.² The *Theragāthā*³ contains several verses uttered by him to a woman to whom he was once married. She met him begging alms in Savatthi and smiled to him with sinful heart.