An Arahant. She was born in a householder’s family of Sāvatthi, and, at the age of twenty, having heard Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī teach, she left the world. One day, while meditating, the Buddha appeared before her in a ray of glory and she became an Arahant.

In the past she was a kinnarī on the banks of the Candabhāgā, and, having seen a Pacceka Buddha, worshipped him with a wreath of reeds. Thig. vs.3; ThigA. 9 f.

She is perhaps identical with Naḷamālikā Therī of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.515.