Uttaramātā2
Person一位夜叉女,在祇園精舍附近覓食時攜二子駐足聆聽佛法,與其子一同證得須陀洹果。
A yakkhinī, mother of Punabbasu and Uttarā. Once as she passed Jetavana at sunset looking for food, with her daughter on her hip and holding her son by his finger, she saw the assembly, intently listening to the Buddha’s discourse. She, too, hoping to get some benefit, listened quietly and with great earnestness, hushing her children to quietness. The Buddha taught in such a manner that both she and her son could understand, and at the end of the discourse they both became Stream-winner. She immediately got rid of her sad yakkha-state and obtained heavenly bliss, and took up her residence in a tree near the Buddha’s Fragrant Chamber.
Little Uttarā was too young to realise the Truth. S.i.210; SA.i.238-40; DA.ii.500 f.
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