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Kaṭṭhavāhana2

Person

波罗奈国王,即菩萨前生,为梵授王(Brahmadatta)与一位在林中拾柴时被王邂逅并纳为妃的女子所生之子,事见《拾薪本生》。

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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