[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.c27.683 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.683 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.683 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c27.683](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.683) 1. \*\*Padumavatī.\*\*—Mother of five hundred Pacceka Buddhas. She was once a householder’s daughter in a village near Benares; one day, while guarding her father’s field, she saw a Pacceka Buddha, and gave him a lotus with five hundred grains of fried rice (\*lājā\*), making a wish to have five hundred sons. At that moment, five hundred hunters who stood by gave honey and flesh to the Pacceka Buddha and expressed their wish to be her sons. Later, she was born in a lotus-pond, within a lotus. An ascetic, seeing her, brought her up. Wherever she went, lotuses sprang up at her every footstep. The King of Benares, hearing of her, made her his chief consort. She gave birth to five hundred sons, the eldest being Mahāpaduma. All of them became Pacceka Buddhas.¹ - [Previous: v2.c27.682](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.682) - [Next: v2.c27.684](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.684) - [Up: v2.c27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.683](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c27.683) · Pramāṇa