84000 Glossary of Terms

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ལེགས་སྐྱེས་མ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ལེགས་སྐྱེས་མ།

  • legs skyes ma
  • sujātā
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  • Sujātā
  • ལེགས་སྐྱེས་མ།
  • legs skyes ma
  • sujātā
Definition in this text:

A village girl who gives the Bodhisattva a meal of milk rice shortly before he attains awakening, an event related in this sūtra.

  • Sujātā
  • ལེགས་སྐྱེས་མ།
  • legs skyes ma
  • sujātā
Definition in this text:

One of the ten girls who attended upon Prince Siddhārtha while he was practicing austerities.

  • Sujātā
  • ལེགས་སྐྱེས་མ།
  • legs skyes ma
  • sujātā
Definition in this text:

A certain lay vow holder in Śrāvastī. Though in the Lalitavistara Sūtra and elsewhere a young woman named Sujātā is among those said to have given food to Gautama prior to his enlightenment, in this text and in the Divyāvadāna that deed is credited to Nandā and Nandabalā.