• Sukkā

1. Sukkā Therī. She belonged to a householder's family of Rājagaha, and, very impressed by the Buddha's majesty when he visited Rājagaha, she became a lay believer. Later she heard Dhammadinnā preach, and entered the Order under her, attaining arahantship not long after.

In the time of Vipassī Buddha she had been a nun, and, after a sojourn in Tusita, a nun again in the time of Sikhī, Vessabhū, Kakusandha, Konāgamana and Kassapa Buddhas.

In her last life she was a great preacher, at the head of five hundred nuns. One particular sermon to the nuns is specially mentioned, and a tree sprite, living at the end of the nun's cankamana, went about Rājagaha, singing Sukkā's praises. People, hearing the sprite, flocked to hear Sukkā.

Thig.vss.54-6; ThigA.57f ; Ap.ii.605f.; the incident of the tree sprite’s praise is twice mentioned in the Samyutta as well. There the sprite is called a Yakkha (S.i.212); in the second account (ibid., 213) it says that the Yakkha's praise was owing to a meal given to Sukkā by a lay follower of Rājagaha.

2. Sukkā. A class of Devas who were present, in the company of the Veghanasā, at the preaching of the Mahāsamaya Sutta. D.ii.261.