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  • Tāpana

The younger sister of Kapila and Sodhana, in the time of Kassapa Buddha. Her mother was Sādhanī. They all entered the Order, but introduced dissension there.

Kapila was reborn as a fish in the Aciravatī and Tāpanā was born in the Mahāniraya. SnA.i.305f, 309; DhA.iv.37, 39.


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