Samavati

Queen Samavati and Khujjuttara

Through the influence of the Dhamma, Samavati became determined to develop her abilities more intensively. Her most important asset was the way she could feel sympathy for all beings and could suffuse everyone with loving-kindness and compassion. She was able to develop this faculty so strongly that the Buddha called her the woamn lay disciple most skilled in spreading metta, "loving-kindness."

---Great Disciples of the Buddha, by Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker---