Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.94
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.94
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Kakkhaḷa.—A nickname given to Jeṭṭhatissa I. When certain of his ministers shewed reluctance to accompany his father’s funeral procession, he finally persuaded them; but when they were assembled he had the gates shut on them, put them to death, and had their bodies empaled on stakes round his father’s pyre. Hence his name.¹