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Asokā

1. Asokā.– A nun of Ñātikā. When Ānanda announces her death to the Buddha at Ñātikā in the Giñjakāvasatha, and inquires where she had been born, the Buddha says that she had been reborn spontaneously in the Suddhāvāsā, there to pass away, destined never to return. S.v.358.

2. Asokā.– One of the two chief women disciples of Maṅgala Buddha. Bu.iv.24; J.i.34.