Pāli Dictionary

kakusandha

Part of speech

noun · masculine

doctrine

  • Kakusandha, name of a past Buddha of this aeon (the third Buddha preceding Gotama)

  • MN 50

    bhūtapubb'āhaṃ, pāpima, dūsī nāma māro ahosiṃ, tassa me kāḷī nāma bhaginī. tassā tvaṃ putto. so me tvaṃ bhāgineyyo ahosi. tena kho pana, pāpima, samayena kakusandho bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho loke uppanno hoti.

Encyclopedia

2 entries

Kakusandha
Person

  • The twenty-second of the twenty-four Buddhas and the first of the five Buddhas of the present fortunate aeon, born in Khemavatī to the chaplain Aggidatta.

DN 32
Kakusandha2
Person

  • The author, probably of the fifteenth century, of the Sinhalese Dhātuvaṃsa, likely a translation from Pāḷi.

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