Pāli Dictionary

Sumanā15

Person

夫に追い出されて苦難を味わった後、帝釈天とある神の奇跡的な助けを受け、その後王によって正妃に立てられたアヌラーダプラの女性。

A woman of the Mahāvālukavīthi in Anurādhapura. She spent much time in the monastery and was sent away in anger by her husband. She starved for seven days, and on the way back to her house from Mahāgāma, where she was married, gave some food, which Sakka provided for her, to Mahādhammadinna Thera of Talangapabbata, at Nigrodhasālakhanda. Later, another deity took her in a cart to Gulapūvatintini, near Anurādhapura. The king, hearing of her, made her his chief queen. Ras.ii.49 f.

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