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महाप्रजापती (mahAprajApatI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
महा—प्रजापती
f.
N.
of Gautama Buddha's aunt and foster-mother (the first woman who embraced the Buddha's doctrines),
Buddh.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Mahāprajāpatī (= Pali Mahāpaj°), n. of the sister of Mayā, after whose death she took care of the infant Bodhisattva
later made the head of the order of nuns
regularly with addition of her family name Gautamī (once, at least, written Go°), q.v.: SP 〔268.6 ff.〕
LV 〔100.14, 16〕
〔118.14, 16〕
〔121.17〕
〔201.9〕
〔228.4〕
〔229.15, 18〕
Mv 〔ii.165.2〕
〔233.2〕
〔iii.116.7 ff.〕
〔142.6〕
〔256.13 ff.〕
Mvy 〔1068〕
Bhīk 〔3a.2〕 et alibi
without the word Gautamī, SP 〔2.9〕
Mv 〔i.355.17〕
Divy 〔391.7〕
Suv 〔239.9〕
Av 〔ii.4.9〕
〔21.6, 13〕
〔33.5〕
〔50.3〕.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
skye dgu'i bdag mo
प्रजापती २) महाप्रजापती
skye dgu'i bdag mo che
महाप्रजापती