She belonged to a family of Kosambī and left the world in distress on the loss of her friend, Sāmāvatī. For twenty-five years she was unable to gain self mastery, until, in her old age, she heard a discourse and won Arahantship.

Ninety-one world-cycles ago she was a kinnarī on the banks of the Candabhāgā. One day, while amusing herself in company of her friends, she saw Vipassī Buddha and worshipped him with salaḷa flowers (Thig.39-41; ThigA.45 f). She is evidently identical with Salaḷapupphikā of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.524.