[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c27.2310 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.2310 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.2310 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.2310](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.2310) Pesakāradhītuvatthu.—The story of a weaver's daughter of Āḷavi. She heard the Buddha preach at the Aggāḷava-cetiya on the necessity of meditating constantly on the inevitableness of death and, though she was only sixteen, she was the only one to profit by the sermon. Three years later the Buddha again visited Āḷavi. The citizens entertained him, but the Buddha would not preach his thanksgiving sermon till the weaver's daughter, having finished the tasks required of her by her father, was able to be present. On her arrival the Buddha asked her questions so that her wisdom might be known to the assembled populace, and, at the conclusion of the Buddha's discourse, she became a sotāpanna. That same day she was killed by an accident to her loom, and her father joined the Order, attaining arahantship in due course.¹ - [Previous: v2.c27.2309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.2309) - [Next: v2.c27.2311](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.2311) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.2310](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.2310) · Pramāṇa