Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.4241

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1. Subhā.—A group of Brahmās; the group includes the Parittasubhā, the Appamāṇasubhā and the Subhakiṇhā.¹ 2. Subhā Kammāradhitā.—She was the daughter of a rich goldsmith of Rājagaha. One day she went to pay obeisance to the Buddha and he preached to her. She became a sotāpanna, and later she joined the Order under Mahāpajāpatī. From time to time her relations tried to persuade her to leave the Order and return to the world. One day she set forth, in twenty-four verses, the dangers of household life and dismissed them, convinced of her rightness. Then, striving for insight, she attained arahantship on the eighth day.¹ The Buddha saw this and praised her in three verses.² Sakka visited her with the gods of Tāvatimsa and uttered another verse in her praise.³