RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mahapajapati Gotami

600 BC - 480 BC

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Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī (Sanskrit: महाप्रजापति गौतमी; Pali: Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī) or simply Prajāpatī was the foster-mother, step-mother and maternal aunt (mother's sister) of the Buddha. In Buddhist tradition, she was the first woman to seek ordination for women, which she did from Gautama Buddha directly, and she became the first bhikṣuṇī (Buddhist nun). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahapajapati Gotami is the 549th most popular religious figure (up from 718th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Nepalese Religious Figure.

Mahapajapati Gotami is most famous for being the first woman to become ordained in Buddhism.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 549 out of 3,187. Before her are Pope Eusebius, Bahira, Pope Vigilius, Ammar ibn Yasir, Ali al-Ridha, and Manco Cápac. After her are Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Sumayyah bint Khabbat, Pope Felix IV, Pope Romanus, Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari, and Zaynab bint Khuzayma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 19. Before her are Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Cambyses I, Pheidippides, Hippasus, Theano, and Polycrates. After her are Nahum, Bias of Priene, Hippias, Lucius Junius Brutus, Hipparchus, and Chilon of Sparta. Among people deceased in 480 BC, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 2. Before her is Leonidas I. After her are Ephialtes of Trachis, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, Cleombrotus, Onomacritus, and Hamilcar I of Carthage.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 5 out of 59. Before her are Gautama Buddha (-566), Yaśodharā (-600), Maya (-600), and Tenzing Norgay (1914). After her are Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), KP Sharma Oli (1952), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), and Ram Chandra Poudel (1944).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nepal

Among religious figures born in Nepal, Mahapajapati Gotami ranks 2. Before her are Maya (-600). After her are Rāhula (-534), Anuruddha (-450), and Janaka (null).

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