Avavādakā untranslated

Avavādakā. A Licchavī girl. Her father was a Nigaṇṭha who had come to Vesālī to hold discussions and had there met a Nigaṇṭhī whom he married. Avavādakā had three sisters, Saccā, Lolā and Paṭācārā and one brother Saccaka. The children learnt from their parents one thousand theses for discussion, and on the death of the parents the sisters became Paribbājakas. In the course of their wanderings, whenever they entered a city, they would set up at the city-gate a jambu-twig, as a challenge to anyone who might wish to hold a philosophic discussion with them.

In Sāvatthī, Sāriputta accepted the challenge, and at the end of the discussion he converted them. They later became Arahants. The story of their past is given in the Cūḷa Kāliṅgajātaka (Ja 301). Ja.iii.1ff.