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Sādhinī, Sādhanī

Mother of Sodhana and of Kapila, who, in a later birth, became Kapila­maccha. She and her daughter, Tāpanā, became nuns, but because they followed Kapila’s example and abused and reviled good monks, they were born, after death, in hell (niraya). DhA.iv.37, 42; SNA.i.305.