This painting depicts the Buddha together with various monks and laypeople, being publicly accused by the woman Cincamanavika of making her pregnant. The story goes as thus: Cinca was a paribbajika (female ascetic) of some ascetic order. When the heretics of this order found that their gains were grown less owing to the popularity of the Buddha, they enlisted the support of Cinca in their attempts to discredit him. She was very beautiful and full of cunning, and they persuaded her to pretend to pay visits to the Buddha at Jetavana. She let herself be seen going towards the vihara in the evening, spent the night in the heretics quarters near by, and in the morning men saw her returning from the direction of the vihara. When questioned, she said that she had passed the night with the Buddha. After some months she simulated pregnancy by tying a disc of wood round her body and appearing thus before the Buddha, as he preached to a vast congregation, she charged him with irresponsibility and callousness in that he made no provision for her confinement. The Buddha remained silent, but Sakkas throne was heated and he caused a mouse to sever the cords of the wooden disc, which fell to the ground, cutting Cincas toes. She was chased out of the vihara by those present, and as she stepped outside the gate the fires of the lowest hell swallowed her up (DhA.iii.178f; J.iv.187f; ItA.69). Source:Wisdom Library, https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/cinca-manavika/index.html.) Updated: Jan 2 2015.
{{Information |Description=This painting depicts the Buddha together with various monks and laypeople, being publicly o accused by the woman Cincamanavika of making her pregnant. Concamanavika was acting according to the instructions of some jealous monks