[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c12.644 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.644 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.644 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c12.644](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.644) In this journey of Gotama, Channa held on to Kanthaka's tail. The horse had the strength, had it been necessary, to clear the ramparts of the city, eighteen hands high, at one bound, with the prince and Channa on his back. Just outside Kapilavatthu the prince stopped the horse, in order to take a last look at the city. A cetiya was later erected on this spot and called Kanthakanivatta-cetiya. The horse travelled thirty leagues between midnight and the following morning, as far as the river Anomā. It is said that Kanthaka could travel round the whole cakka-vāla in one night. With one leap the horse cleared the river, which was eight fathoms wide. On arriving on the opposite bank, the Bodhisatta gave orders that Kanthaka should be taken back to Kapilavatthu, but Kanthaka kept looking back at his master, and when the Bodhisatta disappeared from view the horse died of a broken heart, and was reborn in Tāvatiṃsa under the name of Kanthaka-devaputta.¹ - [Previous: v1.c12.643](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.643) - [Next: v1.c12.645](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.645) - [Up: v1.c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.644](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.644) · Pramāṇa