AnulÄ
1. AnulÄ.- Daughter of Muá¹asiva, King of Sri Lanka, and wife of MahÄnÄga, who was brother and sub-king to DevÄnampiya-Tissa. With five hundred other women she heard Mahinda teach the Petavatthu, the VimÄnavatthu and the Sacca Saṃyutta, and together with the others became a Stream-enterer (Mhv.xiv.56-7; Dpv.xi.8; xii.82). Later, hearing the discourse taught by Mahinda in the MahÄmeghavana, she, with others, became a SakadÄgÄmÄ«, and expressed to the king their wish to receive ordination. It was to enable these to be ordained that Saá¹…ghamittÄ was sent for (Mhv.xv.18-19; Sp.i.90ff.; Dpv.xv.73ff). Until the arrival of Saá¹…ghamittÄ, AnulÄ and her companions observed the ten precepts and lived in the UpÄsikÄ VihÄra. Mhv.xviii.9-12. The TikÄ (p.388) says they took on the ekÄsanikaá¹…ga vow as well; see also Mbv. pp.121, 144, 167.
After her ordination AnulÄ became an Arahant (Mhv.xix.65; xvi.41) and was the first woman Arahant in Sri Lanka.
2. AnulÄ.- Widow of KhallÄá¹anÄga, King of Sri Lanka, and later wife of Vaá¹á¹agÄmani (Mhv.xxxiii.35, 36). When Vaá¹á¹agÄmani had to flee from his enemies, she was the only one of his wives whom he took with him, because she was with child (Mhv.xxxiii.45). Later, when they were hiding in Malaya, under the protection of Tanasiva, AnulÄ quarrelled with the wife of Tanasiva and, as a result, Vaá¹á¹agÄmani killed him. (Mhv.xxxiii.62ff).
3. AnulÄ.- Wife of CoranÄga and Queen of Sri Lanka for four months (in A.D. 12-16). She was a lewd woman and killed her husband that she might marry MahÄcūḷa’s son, Tissa. She soon got tired of him and poisoned him. Then, in succession, she had as husbands Siva, a palace guard; Vaá¹uka, a Tamil carpenter; Tissa, a woodcarrier; the Damiḷa Niliya, a palace priest — all of whom she removed by poisoning. The last one she killed because she wished to live indiscriminately with thirty-two palace guards.
In the end she was killed by Kuá¹akaṇṇatissa (Mhv.xxxiv.16-34; Dpv.xix.50ff).
4. AnulÄ.- The chief woman-disciple of Kassapa Buddha. Bu.xxv.40; J.i.43.
5. AnulÄ.- Daughter of Cūḷaseá¹á¹hi of Benares. She lived with her husband in Andhakavinda, and after her father’s death she fed brahmins in his name, but this pious act was of no benefit to him (PvA.105ff).
6. AnulÄ.- One of the chief women-supporters of Maá¹…gala Buddha (Bu.iv.25).
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