Pāli Dictionary

Tuṇḍila

Person

The wastrel brother of the courtesan Kālī, whose story of squandered money and enforced nakedness is told in the Takkāriya Jātaka.

Brother of the courtesan Kālī. He was a ne’er-do-well, and Kālī, having helped him with money which he proceeded to squander, refused to give him any more. However, a patron of Kālī, seeing his condition, gave him his clothes on entering Kālī’s house — it being the custom for those who patronised a courtesan, to be provided with clothes during their stay in her house — and had to walk away naked.

Takkāriya Jātaka. J.iv.248 f.

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