Nandā6
Person선정력에서 비구니 가운데 으뜸으로 부처님께 선언되었으며, 숫도다나와 마하빠자빠띠의 딸이자 난다 장로의 누이로, 대개 순다리난다와 동일시되지만 그 전설은 같은 이름을 가진 다른 비구니들의 이야기와 뒤섞여 있다
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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