A daughter of King Muṭasiva who, after her ordination under Saṅghamittā, became the first woman in Sri Lanka to attain Arahantship.

The widow of King Khallāṭanāga and later wife of Vaṭṭagāmaṇi, whom the king took with him alone among his wives when he fled his enemies because she was pregnant.

A queen of Sri Lanka who reigned for four months after poisoning her husband King Coranāga, then successively murdered a series of further husbands before being killed herself by Kuṭakaṇṇatissa.

The chief female disciple of the Buddha Kassapa.

A daughter of a banker of Bārāṇasī who, after settling in Andhakavinda, fed brahmins in her deceased father’s name, though the offering brought him no benefit.

One of the chief female lay supporters of the Buddha Maṅgala.

An elder residing at the Koṭipabbata monastery in Sri Lanka who, possessing the divine eye, marvelled at seeing that a woman had once been reborn as a pig, and whose exclamation led her to learn her own past life and gain the power to see her own past births.

A separate individual, distinct from the elder in the preceding entry, treated instead under the entry for the more senior elder of the same name bearing the epithet Mahā.