Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.135
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.135
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v2.c36.135
⁴³ See also the story of Ciñcā-māṇavikā, when Sakka protected the Buddha from her charges. Sakka also regarded it as his business to protect the Buddha’s followers, as is shown by the manner in which he came to the rescue of the four seven-year-old novices—Saṅkicca, Paṇḍita, Sopāka and Revata—when they were made to go hungry by a brahmin and his wife (DhA. iv. 176 f.).