Nandā6
PersonĐược Đức Phật tuyên bố là bậc nhất trong các tỳ khưu ni về thiền định, con gái của Suddhodana và Mahāpajāpatī, em gái của trưởng lão Nanda, thường được đồng nhất với Sundarī-Nandā dù truyền thuyết về bà đã bị lẫn lộn với các tỳ khưu ni khác cùng tên
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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