Tribes in Ancient India c31.100

c31.100

The king of Benares at the time of the Buddha Kassapa is said to have been Kikī. When Kassapa Buddha arrived in Benares, the king, having listened to his sermons, entertained the Buddha and his monks at the palace.¹ One of Kikī’s daughters was Uracchadā, who attained arahatship at the age of sixteen. He had seven other daughters, and a son Pathavindhara, who succeeded him (*Divyāvadāna*; 22, Sujāta). During the life of the Buddha Kassapa, Kikī waited on him with many kinds of gifts,² and at his death built one of the four gates outside the Buddha’s cetiya. This gate was a league in width.³ In the Sanskrit books he is called Kṛkī,⁴ and is mentioned as owning a palace called Kokanada.