Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.996
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.996
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¹ UdA. 60; SnA. ii. 419. According to some, it was the gift of a merchant named Kalandaka (Beal: Romantic Legend, p. 315); Thibetan sources identify the rājā with Bimbisāra and say that the snake was a reincarnation of the owner whose land the king had confiscated. According to these same sources the name is Kalantaka and is described as the name of a bird (Rockhill: op. cit., p. 43).