Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.2568

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**Kumbhakāra Jātaka** (No. 408).—The Bodhisatta was a potter in Benares, and to his house came four Pacceka Buddhas—**Karaṇḍu**, **Naggaji**, **Nimi** and **Dummukha**—from **Nandamūla-pabbhāra**. He welcomed them and asked them the stories of their renunciation. Having heard them, both he and his wife wished to leave the world, but his wife, deceiving him, went before him, leaving him to look after their son and daughter. When the children were old enough he, too, became an ascetic, and though he met his wife later he refused to have anything to do with her.