Sanghadasi, Saṅghadāsī: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Sanghadasi. The youngest of the seven daughters of Kiki, king of Benares. She was Visakha in the present age (J.vi.481). One day, as she was giving the five products of the cow to a company of twenty thousand monks, she persuaded them to accept her gifts even when they covered their bowls, saying: Enough, enough. For this reason, when, as Visakha, she was given cattle by her father at the time of her marriage, other herds of cattle joined them, in spite of the efforts of men to prevent them (DhA.i.396f., 418).
The Apadana, however, gives her name as Sanghadayika. Ap.ii.655 (vs. 16).
2. Sanghadasi. An eminent nun of Jambudipa. Dpv.xviii.10.
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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