Aryika

Aryikas (sadhvis) meditating near Vrindavan, India.

Aryika, also known as Sadhvi, is a female mendicant (nun) in Jainism.[1]

In Samavasarana of the Tirthankara, aryikas sit in the third hall.
  1. ^ Jaini 1991, p. xxviii, 180.