kāḷī

Kāḷī1Kururagharikā

Described among laywomen as the best of those who believe even from hearsay. AN.i.26 A conversation between her and Mahā Kaccāna is related, where she asks him for a detailed exposition of one of the stanzas in the Kumāripañhas. The stanza occurs at. SN.i.126 Mahā-Kaccāna explains, and his explanation deals with the ten kasinas. AN.v.46f.

Kāḷī2

Maidservant of Videhikā of Sāvatthī. Videhikā was reputed to be gentle and meek, but Kāḷī, who was a bright girl and a good worker, thought she would test her mistress. One day she rose late and, on being reproved, spoke very lightly of her fault. Finding that Videhikā lost her temper, Kāḷī repeated her offence several times, until one day her mistress struck her with a lynch-pin, drawing blood from her head. Kāḷī ran out and roused the neighbourhood with her shrieks. Videhikā’s reputation for meekness was no more. The story is related in the Kakacūpama Sutta. MN.i.125f.

Kāḷī3

A Māra-woman, sister of Dūsī and mother of the Māra of the present age. MN.i.333

Kāḷī4

A crematrix of Sāvatthī. Seeing Mahākāla meditating in the cemetery, she cut off from a recently cremated body its thighs and arms, and making of them a sort of milk bowl, placed it near where the Thera sat. Thag.151