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Yasavatī
Person
  • The wife of Suppatīta and mother of the Buddha Vessabhū.

  • The wife of the Buddha Maṅgala during his final life as a layman.

  • The chief among the women patrons of the Buddha Revata.

  • The sister of Akitti.

  • One of the chief women supporters of the future Buddha Metteyya, destined to lead the women who accompany him at his renunciation.

  • The city in whose park the Buddha Tissa preached his first discourse, and the capital of King Sujāta.

  • A cross-reference entry pointing to Yasa (6).

  • A Therī at the head of a group of nuns to whom a set of verses in the Apadāna is attributed.

  • The wife of Okkāmukha and mother of Devadaha Sakka.

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