[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.c36.4410 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.4410 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.4410 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c36.4410](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.4410) It is said that, in the time of Vipassī Buddha, she belonged to a seṭṭhi family, her father being dead. When the people, almost at the point of the sword, obtained the king's permission to entertain the Buddha and his monks, it was the senāpati's privilege to invite the Buddha to his house on the first day. When Sumanā came back from playing, she found her mother in tears, and when asked the reason, her mother replied, "If your father had been alive, ours would have been the privilege of entertaining the Buddha today." Sumanā comforted her by saying that that honour should yet be theirs. She filled a golden bowl with richly flavoured milk-rice, covering it with another bowl. She then wrapped both vessels all round with jasmine-flowers and left the house with her slaves. On the way to the senāpati's house she was stopped by his men, but she coaxed them to let her pass, and, as the Buddha approached, saying that she wished to offer him a jasmine garland, she put the two vessels into his alms bowl. She then made the resolve that in every subsequent birth she should be named Sumanā and that her body should be like a garland of jasmine. When the Buddha arrived in the senāpati's house and was served first with soup, he covered his bowl saying that he had already been given his food. At the end of the meal the senāpati made enquiries, and, full of admiration for Sumanā's courage, invited her to his house and made her his chief consort. Ever after that she was known as Sumanā, and, wherever she was born, a shower of jasmine-flowers fell knee-deep on the day of her birth. - [Previous: v2.c36.4409](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.4409) - [Next: v2.c36.4411](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.4411) - [Up: v2.c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.4410](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.4410) · Pramāṇa