仏陀の入滅後に仏舎利の分与を求めたインドの武士氏族で、伝承では迫害を逃れた釈迦族の王子たちの子孫とされ、後にアショーカ王の祖父Candaguttaを輩出した。

A warrior clan of India that claimed a share of the Buddha’s relics after his death and, according to tradition, descended from Sakyan princes who fled persecution and later produced Candagutta, grandfather of Asoka.