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Kaṭṭhavāhana2

Person

A king of Bārāṇasī and the Bodhisatta, born the son of King Brahmadatta and a firewood-gathering woman he met and married in a grove, as told in the Kaṭṭhahāri Jātaka.

King of Bārāṇasī. He was the Bodhisatta, son of Brahmadatta, king of Bārāṇasī, and of a faggot-gatherer, whom the king met in a grove, singing as she picked up the sticks. His story is related in the Kaṭṭhahāri Jātaka. J.i.133 ff; DhA.i.349; J.iv.148.

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