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TRIBES IN ANCIENT INDIA
questions.1 Ascetics who came to the city found lodging for the night in the Potters' Hall.2
Many venerable Buddhist monks, e.g. Sariputta, Mahāmoggallana, Mahākaccana, Mahākoṭṭhita, Mahācunda, Anuruddha, Revata, Upāli, Ananda and Rahula journeyed through the country of Kasi. The Buddha's converts in Benares included Addhakäsi, the daughter of a rich banker of Kaśi, who became a courtesan, whose fee was fixed by the king at half of the daily income of Kāśī (this explains her name, Addhakasi). After her conversion by the Buddha, Addhakāsī is said to have become an arahat. For other references to nuns who were connected with Kāśī, see, e.g. Therīgāthā Comm., p. 106 and pp. 151-2. Elsewhere in the same work (pp. 71-2) it is said that Bhadda Kapiläni became the chief queen of the king of Benares on account of her approving the offering of cloth to the Buddha in a previous birth.
1 E.g. Jātaka, IV, p. 74.
2 E.g. Dhammapada Comm., I, p. 39.
3 Vinaya Texts, Pt. II, pp. 359-60.
4 Therigatha Comm., pp. 30-1. See also Vinaya Texts, III, p. 360, n. 3; II, pp. 195-6, n. 3.
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