Sāma untranslated

Sāma 01. The king of Benares (Ja.ii.98) in the Giridantajātaka (Ja 184).

Sāma 02. One of the hounds of the Lokantaraniraya. Ja.vi.247.

Sāma 03. The Bodhisatta born as a hunter’s son. He was also called Suvaṇṇasāma. For his story see the Sāmajātaka (Ja 540). He is given as an example of one who was conceived by touching the navel, e.g., Mil.123.

Sāma 04. The Milinda, refers to a Jātaka story where Devadatta was a man named Sāma, and the Bodhisatta a king of deer, named Ruru. The reference is evidently to the Rurumigajātaka (Ja 482), but there the man is called Mahā Dhanaka. Ja.iv.255 ff.; but see Cp.ii.6.

Sāmā 01. The chief woman disciple of Kakusandha Buddha. Bv.xxiii.21; Ja.i.42.

Sāmā 02. One of the chief lay women disciples of Koṇāgamana Buddha. Bv.xxiv.24.

Sāmā 03. A courtesan of Benares; for her story see the Kaṇaverajātaka (Ja 318, Ja.iii.59ff).

Sāmā 04. Sāmā Therī. She belonged to an eminent family of Kosambī, and when her friend Sāmāvatī died she left the world in distress of mind. Unable to subdue her grief, she could not grasp the Ariyan way. One day, while listening to Ānanda’s preaching, she won insight, and, on the seventh day from then became an Arahant. Thīg.vs.37-8; Thīg­a.44.

Sāmā 05. Sāmā Therī. She belonged to a family of Kosambī and left the world in distress on the loss of her friend, Sāmāvatī. For twenty-five years she was unable to gain self-mastery, till, in her old age, she heard a sermon and won Arahant-ship.

Ninety-one kappas ago she was a kinnarī on the banks of the Candabhāga. One day, while amusing herself in company of her friends, she saw Vipassī Buddha and worshipped him with salaḷa-flowers (Thīg.39-41; Thīg­a.45f). She is evidently identical with Salaḷapupphikā of the Apadāna. Ap.ii.524.

Sāmā 06. The original name of Sāmāvatī.