Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.541

v2.c29.541

⁶⁴ The Commentary explains (DA. ii. 554 f.) that kappa here means āyukappa, the full span of a man’s life during that particular age. Some, like Mahāsiva Thera, maintained that if the Buddha could live for ten months, overcoming the pains of death, he could as well continue to live to the end of this Bhad-dakappa. But a Buddha does not do so because he wishes to die before his body is overcome by the infirmities of old age.