Kakkhaḷa
Person‘잔인한 자’를 뜻하는 별칭으로, 젯타티사 1세에게 붙여졌다. 그가 아버지의 장례 행렬에 마지못해 참여한 대신들을 처형하고 그 시신을 화장대 주위에 꿰어 놓았기 때문이다.
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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