Wife of Esukárí, king of Benares.
When Esukárí longed for wealth, she showed him the folly of covetousness and persuaded him to become an ascetic, later entering to ascetic life herself. The story is related in the Hatthipála Játaka (q.v.).
Pañcálí is identified with Mahámáyá (J.iv.491).
The scholiast says (Ibid., 486) that she was called Pañcálí because she was the daughter of the Pañcála king.