རྐང་བཀྲ། | Glossary of Terms

The cannibal prince who was born from the rape of king Sudāsa by a ferocious lioness and developed a taste for the flesh of human children. In the story alluded to here, the cannibal prince sets out to imprison one thousand princes to slaughter, but the bodhisattva Prince Candra intervenes and manages to turn the cannibal prince’s mind toward virtue so that he releases all his captives. This version of the story is found in Āryaśūra’s Jātakamālā, Jātaka 31, Toh 4150, folio 118.a.

The king who captured one hundred kings but released them after listening to King Sutasoma, the last of his captives, and developing faith in his teachings, especially the precepts on being true to one’s word. Various versions of this Sutasoma Jātaka are found in Buddhist literature, from the Pali canon onward.