Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.792
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.792
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2. Kapisīsa.—A minister of King Vaṭṭhagāmaṇī. One day when the king, accompanied by his queen, was going up the steps of the Ākāsacetiya at Acchagallavihāra, he saw the minister, who had come down after the sweeping of the cetiya, sitting by the roadside. Because Kapisīsa failed to prostrate himself before the king, the latter slew him.¹