Talk:Kujjuttara

moving unique content to Khujjuttara
After creating this page (Kujjuttara), I saw on the "Category:Disciples of the Buddha" page that there was an existing article for Khujjuttara.

It is hard to say which of these two names (Khujjuttara and Kujjuttara) is more authoritative. The PED seems to suggest that kujja is derived from khujja (both of which mean "humpbacked" or "crooked, deceitful" which might either refer to this laywoman's physical feature or to her pre-laywoman habit of stealing from her employer, etc.). [www.metta.lk MettaNet] uses "Kujjuttara" while Bhikkhu Bodhi uses "Khujjuttara" (for instance in his CDB translation). Perhaps most intuitively presuasive, using Google, "Khujjuttara" has 369 hits while "Kujjuttara" has only 3 hits. Moreover, the "Khujjuttara" was here first and has a couple of more links. So, it appears "Khujjuttara" is the more popular choice for an article name.

As it is, the existing "Khujjuttara" article appears to have a number of uncited statements so, as part of this transfer of content, I'll try to add a couple of citations and bibliographic references as well. (Other content I might just flag as uncited.)

Sorry for adding to cyber clutter with this apparently redundant article, LarryR 13:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)