Pāli Dictionary

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  • A brahmin woman, wife of King Esukārī’s chaplain and mother of the Bodhisatta as Hatthipāla, identified as a previous birth of Mahāmāyā.

  • A woman of Vesāli who, driven mad with grief after her young son’s death, wandered until the Buddha calmed and taught her at Mithilā, where she was ordained and soon became an Arahant.

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