Ekūposathikā
PersonAn arahant who, as a slave water-carrier in a past life, took up the precepts on seeing King Bandhumā observe the fast day, thereafter being reborn as a queen dozens of times before, in her final life, renouncing the world at seven and attaining Arahantship within eight months.
An Arahant. In the past she was a slave-girl, a water-carrier in the city of Bandhumatī. Seeing the King Bandhumā keeping the fast, she took the precepts herself and kept them well. Sixty-four times she became the queen of rulers in heaven, and was sixty-three times queen among men. Her complexion was always of a golden hue. In her last life she left the world at the age of seven, and attained Arahantship within eight months (Ap.ii.522 f).
She is probably identical with Uttamā Therī. See ThigA.46 ff.
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