Among the female disciples of Gautama Buddha, she was the foremost exponent of the Vinaya, the rules of monastic discipline.

She falls in love with one of her parents' servants Amarshanath, a young, good-looking and innocent boy, who had a lower social status.

At the same time, her parents arrange her marriage with Prince Revant, a handsome young man from a neighbouring kingdom.

During her pregnancy, Patacara begged her husband to take her to her parents' house to give birth there, as was the tradition.

She continued on her journey to Savatthi, but when she came to the river Aciravati, it was overflowing due to heavy rain.

Hearing his mother's screaming, the elder son believed Patacara was calling him and entered the water.

Completely shattered and utterly depressed, Patacara becomes insane and then she crazily starts to scream and undress herself.

The people used to throw the stones at her, called her crazy woman and tortured her, while nobody recognized who she was previously.

She gradually became unaware of the importance and conduct of clothes which was a great challenge to the norms and values of society.

Patacara, after running through Savatthi naked and disconsolate, prostrated at the feet of the Buddha, describing her family tragedies.

The Buddha explained this using Buddhist doctrines, and Patacara immediately understood the nature of impermanence.

The Buddha said that she was the foremost Keeper of the Vinaya amongst the Nuns, and thus the female counterpart of the monk Upali.