A princess. In the time of Kakusandha Buddha she was a hen. Having heard a monk repeat a formula of meditation, she was born as a royal princess and named Ubbarī. Seeing a heap of maggots in the privy, she meditated thereon and entered the first jhāna and was born in the Brahma-world. In the time of Gotama Buddha she was reborn as a sow in Rājagaha, and the Buddha, seeing her, smiled and related her past to Ānanda. Later she was born in the royal household in Suvaṇṇabhūmi, then, in succession, in a horse-dealer’s house in Suppāraka and in a mariner’s household in Kāvīra. Then she was reborn in a nobleman’s house in Anurādhapura, and again in the village of Bhokkanta in South Sri Lanka, as the daughter of a householder named Sumana. She was called Sumanā, after her father. When her father moved to the village of Mahāmuṇi in Dīghavāpi, Lakuṇḍaka Atimbara, prime minister of Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, met her and married her, and she went to live in Mahāpunna.

Having recollected her past births from some words uttered by the elder Anula of Koṭi-pabbata, she joined the Order of Pañcabalaka nuns. At Tissamahārāma she heard the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta and became a Stream-winner. Later, having heard the Āsīvisopama Sutta in Kallaka-Mahāvihāra, she attained Arahantship. On the day of her death she related her story, first to the nuns and then in the assembly, in the presence of the elder Mahā Tissa of Maṇḍalārāma. DhA.iv.46 ff.