AvavÄdakÄ
A Licchavi girl. Her father was a Nigaṇá¹ha who had come to VesÄli to hold discussions and had there met a Nigaṇá¹hÄ« whom he married. AvavÄdakÄ had three sisters, SaccÄ, LolÄ and PatÄcÄrÄ and one brother Saccaka. The children learnt from their parents one thousand theses for discussion, and on the death of the parents the sisters became ParibbÄjakas. In the course of their wanderings, whenever they entered a city, they would set up at the city-gate a jambu-twig, as a challenge to anyone who might wish to hold a philosophic discussion with them.
In SÄvatthi, SÄriputta accepted the challenge, and at the end of the discussion he converted them. They later became Arahants. The story of their past is given in the Culla KÄliá¹…ga JÄtaka. J.iii.1ff.
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