GuttÄ
1. GuttÄ TherÄ«.- She belonged to a brahmin family of SÄvatthi; when she reached adolescence household life became repugnant to her owing to her dependence (upanissaya), and, with her parents' consent, she entered the Order under PajÄpatÄ« GotamÄ«. For a long time she could not concentrate her mind, but, encouraged by the Buddha, she attained Arahantship. Thig.vv.163-8; ThigA.157f.
2. GuttÄ.- The third of the seven daughters of Kiki, king of Benares. She was a previous birth of PatÄcÄrÄ. J.vi.481; but see Ap.ii.558, v.15, where PatÄcÄrÄ is identified with Bhikkhuṇī.
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