Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3365

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The Bodhisatta, having been told of this plot, made a wooden figure and placed it in his bed. The mother, thinking to kill her son, struck it with an axe, and discovering that she had been betrayed, fell down dead. The youth, having thus learnt the Asātamanta, returned to his parents and became a hermit. **Kāpilānī** was the mother in the story, **Mahā Kassapa** the father and **Ānanda** the pupil.