Pāli Dictionary

Asokā

Person

ナーティカの比丘尼で、その死をアーナンダが仏陀に報告したところ、仏陀は彼女が浄居天に化生し、二度と戻らない身となったと宣言した。

A nun of Ñātikā. When Ānanda announces her death to the Buddha at Ñātikā in the Giñjakāvasatha, and inquires where she had been born, the Buddha says that she had been reborn spontaneously in the Suddhāvāsā, there to pass away, destined never to return. S.v.358.

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