Culasubhadda, Cūlasubhaddā, Cula-subhadda: 1 definition

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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

Daughter of Anathapindika. At the insistent request of his friend Uggasetthi, and after consultation with the Buddha, Anathapindika agreed to give her in marriage to Uggas son. (According to the Anguttara Commentary (ii.482ff), the setthis name was Kalaka and his city was not Ugga, but Saketa). But he was an unbeliever, and when Niganthas came to his house on invitation, Subhadda refused to do obeisance to them. For this she was ordered out of the house by her father in law; but she convinced her mother in law that the reasons for her behaviour were sound, and at the suggestion of the latter she prepared a meal and invited to it the Buddha and the congregation of monks, by throwing into the air from the top storey of the house eight handfuls of jasmine. The Buddha divined her thoughts and arrived with five hundred arahants. After the meal the Buddha preached the Doctrine and Ugga and his family were converted. As a mark of favour towards Subhadda the Buddha requested Anuruddha to stay behind at Ugganagara. (DhA.iii.465ff; the story is also given in AA.ii.482ff, but with several variations in detail. There seems to be a comparison between the stories of Mahasubhadda and Culasubhadda. See also AA.i.146 and Vsm.390).

Culasubhadda, while still in her fathers house, had become a Sotapanna, and with her sisters, Mahasubhadda and Sumana, she had been entrusted with the distribution of food to the monks. DhA.i.128; J.i.93; ApA.i.81; see also Mil.383, 387.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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