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Kāḷī5

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Une gardienne du crématorium de Sāvatthi qui fournit au moine Mahākāḷa les restes d’un corps incinéré pour lui servir d’objet de méditation.

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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