Pāli Dictionary

Kañcanadevī

Person

波罗奈王之女,菩萨大迦旃那之妹,与兄长们一同出家,是莲华色比丘尼的前生。

Daughter of the king of Bārāṇasī and sister of the Bodhisatta, Mahākāñcana.

With her brothers she renounced the world and lived in a hermitage after her parents’ death.

Her story is told in the Bhisa Jātaka (J.iv.305 ff).

She was a previous birth of Uppalavaṇṇā (J.iv.314).

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