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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Sumanadevi. Mother of Maha Kassapa Thera. Ap.ii.583.
2. Sumanadevi. Mother of Suppatitthita. MT. 528.
3. Sumanadevi. Step sister of Khallatanaga. She had three sons - Tissa, Abhaya and Uttara who conspired against the king. On the failure of their conspiracy, they jumped into the fire on the spot where now stands the Abhayagiri cetiya. MT. 612.
4. Sumanadevi. Youngest daughter of Anathapindika. When her sisters, Mahasubhadda and Cullasubhadda, married and went to live with their husbands, Anathapindika appointed her to look after the feeding of the monks in his house. She became a sakadagami and remained unmarried. Because of her failure to obtain a husband, she refused to eat, and fell ill. One day, when Anathapindika was in the refectory, he received a message from her. He went immediately and asked her what was the matter. She addressed him as Younger brother, and saying that she had no fear, she died. Anathapindika, in great sorrow, sought the Buddha and confessed his grief that she should have died while talking incoherently. The Buddha explained that, inasmuch as she was a sakadagami and he but a sotapanna, her addressing him as Younger brother was quite in order. After death she was born in Tusita, said the Buddha. DhA.i.151f.
5. Sumanadevi. Mother of Visakha. Her husband was Dhananjaya, son of Mendakasetthi of Bhaddiya nagara (DhA.i.384f.; SA.i.116, etc.). She was one of the Mahapunna. Vsm.383; PSA.509, etc.
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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Full-text: Mahapunna, Suppatitthita, Dhananjaya, Maha Ummagga Jataka, Mendaka.
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