Pāli Dictionary

Cāpā

Person

Also known as Chāvā

Fille d’un trappeur devenue l’épouse de l’Ājīvaka Upaka, à qui elle donna un fils, Subhadda ; lorsque Upaka, ne supportant plus ses moqueries, entra dans l’Ordre, elle le suivit à Sāvatthi, devint elle-même nonne et atteignit l’état d’Arahant.

A trapper’s daughter in Vaṅkahāra who became the wife of the Ājīvaka Upaka and bore him a son, Subhadda.

When Upaka, unable to bear his wife’s taunts, renounced the world and joined the Order, she followed him to Sāvatthi, and there, having become a nun, attained Arahantship. Thig.291-311; ThigA.220 ff; SNA.i.259 f.

Thig 13.3

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