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Sumanadevī
PersonThe mother of the elder Mahā-Kassapa.
Sumanadevī2
PersonThe mother of Suppatiṭṭhita.
Sumanadevī3
PersonA step-sister of King Khallāṭanāga whose three sons, after their conspiracy against the king failed, threw themselves into a fire on the spot where the Abhayagiri stupa now stands.
Sumanadevī4
PersonThe youngest daughter of Anāthapiṇḍika, a Once-returner who, dying of grief over remaining unmarried, addressed her father as ‘younger brother’—a remark the Buddha explained was fitting given her higher spiritual attainment.
Sumanadevī5
PersonThe mother of the eminent laywoman Visākhā, and one of the five persons of surpassingly great merit.
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