Who was Madhav Godbole’s wife Sujata?
Who was Madhav Godbole’s wife Sujata? Godbole graduated from Bombay University with a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, as well as an M.A. in Development Economics from Wiliams College, where he was born in 1937. Madhav Godbole, the former Union Residence Secretary, died of heart failure on Monday morning at his home in Pune, Maharashtra,…
Who was Madhav Godbole’s wife Sujata?
Godbole graduated from Bombay University with a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, as well as an M.A. in Development Economics from Wiliams College, where he was born in 1937.
Madhav Godbole, the former Union Residence Secretary, died of heart failure on Monday morning at his home in Pune, Maharashtra, according to family accounts.
He was 85 years old at the time.
Who was Madhav Godbole’s wife Sujata?
Sujata lives in the Uruvela settlement of Senani ( near present Bodh Gaya) She was the daughter of a wealthy landowner and was gorgeous but unmarried.
She began praying at a nearby Nuga (banyan) tree near the Neranjara river on the suggestion of villagers who believed in a tree dwelling god who would grant her wish for a good husband who would shower her with love and gifts. It was eventually granted.
She went on to pray for a baby boy after that. This request was also fulfilled. On Veshaka day, she and her companion Punna would bring a milk-rice dish as a gift to the tree god (full moon). Sujata had a large herd of cows.
To acquire the most nutritional milk, she would feed her cows delicious creepers. This milk would be used to make rice-milk porridge.
Sujata became the Buddha’s first female lay disciple after he attained enlightenment and returned to the village.
