Pāli Dictionary

Compound structure

analyses: 4

kāḷahatthi
  1. kāḷa

    black; dark

  2. hatthi

    elephant

kālahatthi
  1. kāla

    time; period; occasion; season

  2. hatthi

    elephant

kālahatthī
  1. kāla

    time; period; occasion; season

  2. hatthī

    elephant; the elephant division of an army

kāḷahatthī
  1. kāḷa

    black; dark

  2. hatthī

    elephant; the elephant division of an army

Encyclopedia

  • The commander-in-chief of the cannibal king Porisāda in the Mahāsutasoma Jātaka, who persuaded the king to abdicate and later helped restore him to the throne once cured of cannibalism, identified with a past life of Sāriputta.

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