Tribes in Ancient India c31.98

c31.98

The names of several other kings of Benares are mentioned in the Jātakas, among them being those of Aṅga, Uggasena, Udaya, Dhanañjaya, Vissasena, Kalābu (Jātaka, III, 39), and Saṃyama. The Suttanipāta Commentary on the Khaggavisāṇa Sutta contains the names of several kings of Benares who renounced the world and became paccekabuddhas. The Ceylon Chronicles⁷ mention the names of others who reigned in Benares, e.g. Duppasaha and sixty of his descendants; Aśoka, son of Samaṅkara, and 84,000 of his descendants; also sixteen kings, ancestors of Okkāka. Sometimes the king is referred to merely as Kāsī-rājā. In the Jātaka (III, p. 28) we are told that a king of Benares used to learn Vedic hymns from his family priest (purohita).