Pāli Dictionary

Nāgā4

Person

略奪の際に仲間とともに逃れ、バニヤン樹の神霊に養われた Bhātaragāma の阿羅漢比丘尼。彼女には Nāga という名の兄がいた。

An Arahant of Bhātaragāma. During the pillage of Brahmaṇatissa, when all the villagers had fled, she went with her colleagues to a banyan tree, the presiding deity of which provided them with food. She had a brother, Nāga; when he visited her she gave him part of her food, but he refused to accept food from a bhikkhuṇī. MA.i.546; AA.ii.654.

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