Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Ananda
Ananda advocates for Prajapati and the women who have travelled to request admission. He asks whether women can enter the paths, bringing the question of capacity into a repeated refusal. At the Buddha’s death he is overwhelmed by grief. The farewell addresses his long kindness in action, thought and speech and urges continued effort towards freedom.
Also known as Ānanda
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In the sources
Principal account
TraditionalAnanda advocates for Prajapati and the women who have travelled to request admission. He asks whether women can enter the paths, bringing the question of capacity into a repeated refusal.
Further detail
TraditionalAt the Buddha’s death he is overwhelmed by grief. The farewell addresses his long kindness in action, thought and speech and urges continued effort towards freedom.
Context & interpretation
The entry follows Ananda’s admission-of-women and farewell episodes in this collection. It does not infer every later role attributed to him in Buddhist textual traditions from these two scenes alone.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
Ananda now pleaded for themOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1914), active reader leaf 339
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0109-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0109-E001-P0339
- Original scan leaf
- 339
- Recorded leaf number
- 339
- Current Reader position
- 330
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
your kindness in act and thought and speechOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1914), active reader leaf 344
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0109-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0109-E001-P0344
- Original scan leaf
- 344
- Recorded leaf number
- 344
- Current Reader position
- 335
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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Figures in Sacred Narratives ↗
Prajapati
The queen-mother whose repeated request leads to the admission of women into the order.
Shared source pageNirvana
Release from the fetters of individuality, explained by the collection through a broken pot and open space.
Shared source pageThree Jewels
Buddha, the teaching and the community, which the final narrative leaves as enduring points of reliance.
Same subject and traditionChanna
The charioteer who explains the prince’s first encounters with suffering and accompanies his departure.