[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.c16.8 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.8 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c16.8 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.8) Cakkana.—An upāsaka of Ceylon. While he was a boy, his mother once fell grievously ill and the doctors ordered her hare’s flesh. Cakkana was sent by his brother into the field, where he caught a hare which, however, out of compassion he set free. His brother blamed him, but Cakkana cured his mother by a saccakiriya, saying that, inasmuch as he had never deprived anything of life, by the power of that truth his mother should recover.¹ Cakkana’s abstinence is one that was maintained “in spite of opportunity” (sampattivirati) and when he had not undertaken to observe any precept.² - [Previous: v1.c16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.7) - [Next: v1.c16.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.9) - [Up: v1.c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c16.8) · Pramāṇa