Nandā6
Person禅定の力において比丘尼の中で第一と仏陀に宣言された、スッドーダナとマハーパジャーパティーの娘でありナンダ長老の妹、一般にスンダリー・ナンダーと同一視されるが、その伝説は同名の他の尼僧たちの伝説と絡み合っている
Declared by the Buddha (A.i.25) to be foremost among nuns in meditative power (jhāyīnaṃ). She was the daughter of Suddhodana and Mahāpajāpatī and was therefore Sister of Nanda Thera.
She is evidently to be identified with Sundarī-Nandā.
There were three therīs (SNA.i.241) of the name of Nandā who were ordained with Pajāpatī:
Nandā, sister of Nanda Thera (also evidently called Sundarī-Nandā and sometimes Rūpa-Nandā and even Janapadakalyāṇī-Nandā), (e.g. AA.i.198; and ThigA.80),
Abhirūpā-Nandā (daughter of Khema the Sakyan) and
Janapadakalyāṇī-Nanda (evidently sometimes also called Rūpa-Nandā, e.g.,DhA.iii.113 f ).
The legends about them seem to have been confused from very early times.
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