Pāli Dictionary

Puṇṇā6

Person

墓地に捨てた衣服を仏陀が拾い、後に大迦葉と交換した糞掃衣に仕立てられた奴隷女。

A slave woman. The Commentaries mention (e.g., MA.ii.696) that the Buddha once made a rag robe (paṃsukūla) out of a garment cast off by her in a cemetery overgrown with weeds (atimuttakasusāna). When the Buddha donned the robe the earth trembled in wonder. It was this robe that the Buddha exchanged with Mahā-Kassapa; when the Buddha picked it up from the cemetery where Puṇṇā had cast it off it was covered with insects (SA.ii.149).

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