Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.777

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Cullakālinga Jātaka (No. 301).—Kālinga, king of Dantapura, anxious to make a fight, sent his four daughters of surpassing beauty into every kingdom, offering them to any man who would fight him for them. Assaka, king of Potali, with the advice of his minister Nandisena, accepted the challenge. Kālinga thereupon came with his mighty army, and the Bodhisatta who was an ascetic declared, after consultation with Sakka, that victory would be his. But Nandisena, undaunted, instructed Assaka as to how he should kill the tutelary deity of Kālinga when this deity, in the guise of a white bull, should appear on the battlefield. Nandisena led the attack of the soldiers, the white bull was killed and Kālinga defeated. He had to provide dowries for his daughters, and thenceforth the two kings lived as friends.