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  • A devaputta who visited the Buddha at Jetavana and, after being corrected on the nature of true mindfulness, gave his name to the Pañcāla Sutta and is also identified with a great yakkha invoked for protection in the Āṭānāṭiya Sutta.

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  • A handsome young brahmin with whom a Kosalan queen carried on repeated illicit liaisons, a tale recounted among the stories told by Kuṇāla.

  • A previous birth of Kuṇāla, in which, as chaplain to King Kaṇḍari of Bārāṇasī, he interceded to save the queen Kinnarā from execution after her affair with a cripple was discovered.

  • Son of Cūḷani-Brahmadatta, sent by Mahosadha as hostage to King Videha but treated by him like a younger brother; the incident that provided the Buddha’s dialogue with the devaputta Pañcālacaṇḍa (1) is also called after his name.

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