Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera
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Tāpanā
The younger sister of Kapila and Sodhana, in the time of Kassapa Buddha. Her mother was Sādhinī. They all entered the Order, but introduced dissension there.
Kapila was reborn as a fish in the Aciravatī and Tāpanā was born in the Mahā-niraya. SNA.i.305 f, 309; DhA.iv.37, 39.