Kāḷī5
OtherSāvatthiの火葬場の女性作業員で、比丘Mahākāḷaに瞑想の対象として使うため火葬された死体の残骸を提供した。
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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