Kakkhaḷa
PersonEin Beiname mit der Bedeutung ‚der Grausame‘, der Jeṭṭhatissa I. verliehen wurde, nachdem er die Minister, die widerwillig an der Trauerprozession seines Vaters teilgenommen hatten, hinrichten und ihre Leichen um den Scheiterhaufen herum aufspießen ließ.
A nickname given to Jeṭṭhatissa I. When certain of his ministers eschewed reluctance to accompany his father’s funeral procession, he finally persuaded them; but when they were assembled he had the gates shut on them, put them to death, and had their bodies impaled on stakes around his father’s pyre. Hence his name — Jeṭṭhatissa the Cruel (kakkhaḷa). Mhv.xxxvi.118-22.
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