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  • Bhikkhudāsikā, Bhikkhadāyikā

The fourth of the seven daughters of Kikī, king of Benares, in the time of Kassapa Buddha.

She lived in celibacy for twenty thousand years and erected a building for the use of the monks.

She was a previous birth of Bhaddā Kundalakesā. Ap.ii.561; ThigA.104; J. vi.481, however, says she was Gotamā (Pajāpatī Gotamī).


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