Pāli Dictionary

Cittarāja2

Person

Un yakkha que Paṇḍukābhaya honora d une colonie sous le réservoir d Abhaya et d une place à ses côtés les jours de fête, dit dans le Mahāvaṃsa être une incarnation du bouvier Citta qui sauva jadis la vie du roi, mais probablement identique au yakkha Cittarāja (1).

A yakkha whom Paṇḍukābhaya honoured by giving him a settlement at the lower end of the Abhaya reservoir. On festival days the yakkha occupied a seat beside the king. The Mahāvaṃsa (xi.4, 84, 87, 104) says that Citta-rāja was an incarnation of the herdsman Citta (7) who saved Paṇḍukābhaya’s life, but it is more likely that the Cittarāja mentioned here is identical with Cittarāja (1), and that the festival refers to the Kattika festival.

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