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Sāḷha

Person

毗舍佉(Migāramātā)之孙,曾为比丘尼建造一座精舍,并勾引负责监造工程的孙陀利难陀比丘尼。

Called Migāranattā. He once visited Nandaka Thera with Sekhuniya's grandson, Rohana. See the Sāḷha Sutta (A.i.193 f). He built a vihāra for the nuns and Sundarī-Nandā was appointed to supervise the work. As a result, Sāḷha and Sundarī-Nandā saw each other frequently and fell in love. Wishing to seduce her, Sāḷha invited a party of nuns to his house and set apart seats for those nuns who were older than Nandā in one part, and for those younger in another, so that Nandā would be alone. However, guessing the reason for the invitation, she did not go, and instead sent an attendant nun to Sāḷha’s house for her alms, excusing herself on the plea that she was taken ill. Sāḷha, hearing of this, set a servant to look after the other nuns and ran off to the monastery. Nandā, on her bed, was waiting for him, and he seduced her (Vin.iv.211 f). Buddhaghosa explains (Sp.iv.900) that Sāḷha was called Migāranattā because he was the grandson of Migāramātā, (Visākhā).

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