[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.c23.263 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c23.263 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c23.263 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c23.263](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23.263) \*\*Dasaṇṇaka Jātaka\*\* (No. 401).—Once the Bodhisatta was born as Senaka, a brahmin, counsellor to King Maddava of Benares. Maddava, seeing that his chaplain’s son was yearning for his chief queen, gave her to him for a week. But at the end of the week the queen ran away with the youth and the king became ill with longing for her. Senaka thereupon arranged for a festival, in the course of which the king was shown a man swallowing a sword. The king then asked his counsellors, Āyura, Pukkusa and Senaka, if anything could be harder to do than that. They, in turn, replied that to promise a gift, to make it, and having made it, not to regret it, these acts were, in increasing degrees, far harder than swallowing a sword made in Dasaṇṇa. The king, grasping the purport of their answers, regained his self-composure. - [Previous: v1.c23.262](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23.262) - [Next: v1.c23.264](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23.264) - [Up: v1.c23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23.263](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c23.263) · Pramāṇa