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Kāḷī5

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Sāvatthi 화장터의 여성 인부로, 비구 Mahākāḷa에게 명상 대상으로 쓸 화장된 시신의 잔해를 제공했다.

A crematrix (chavadāhikā) of Sāvatthi. Seeing Mahākāḷa meditating in the cemetery, she cut off from a recently cremated body its thighs and arms, and making of them a sort of milk bowl, placed it near where the Thera sat. Thag.151; ThagA.i.271; more details are given in DhA.i.57 ff.

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