1. Uttamá.-A therí. She was born in a banker's family in Sávatthi and, having heard Patácárá preach, entered the Order. She could not attain the climax of her insight, till Patácárá, seeing the state of her mind, gave her admonition. Uttamá thereupon became an arahant (Thig.vv.42-4; ThigA.46ff).
According to the Apadána (quoted in ThigA.) she joined the Order at the age of seven and attained arahantship within a fortnight.
In the time of Vipassí Buddha she had been a slave-girl in a house in Bandhumatí. At that time King Bandhumá (Vipassí's father) kept fast-days, gave alms and attended sermons, and the people followed his pious example. The slave-girl joined in these pious acts, and on account of her thoroughness in the observance of fast-days, she was, after death, reborn in Távatimsa. She became the chief queen of the king of the devas sixty-four times, and she was a Cakkavatti's wife in sixty-three births.
She is evidently identical with Ekúposathiká of the Apadána. Ap.ii.522f.
2. Uttamá.-A therí. She was the daughter of an eminent Brahmin of Kosala. Having heard the Buddha preach during one of his tours, she left the world and soon won arahantship. She, too, had been a slave girl in Bandhumatí in Vipassí's time. One day, seeing an arahant seeking alms, she gladly offered him cakes (Thig.vv.45-7; ThigA.49f).
She is probably identical with Modakadáyiká of the Apadána (ii.524f).