Pāli Dictionary

Tissā2

Person

An Arahant nun of a Sakyan family of Kapilavatthu who, after serving as a lady of the Bodhisatta’s court, renounced the world with Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī and attained Arahantship on hearing a verse spoken by the Buddha in a ray of glory.

An Arahant Therī belonging to a Sakyan family of Kapilavatthu. She became a lady of the Bodhisatta’s court, but later renounced the world with Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, and practised insight. One day the Buddha appeared before her in a ray of glory and uttered a stanza, at the conclusion of which she became an Arahant (Thig.4; ThigA.11).

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