Kakkhaḷa
PersonUne épithète signifiant le cruel, donnée à Jeṭṭhatissa Ier après qu’il eut fait mettre à mort les ministres ayant rejoint à contrecœur le cortège funèbre de son père et empaler leurs corps autour du bûcher.
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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