Kasyapa Buddha's Skeleton on Mount Gurupada XXXIV.

They were: (i) Kra-kuchanda, "he who readily solves all doubts"; a scion of the Kasyapa family.

(3) Kasyapa, "swallower of light."

"] CHAPTER XXXII ~Legend of King Asoka in a Former Birth~ When king Asoka, in a former birth, was a little boy and playing on the road, he met Kasyapa Buddha walking.

Having gone down very far, there was a hole on one side, and there the complete body of Kasyapa still abides.

Devotees of our Law from the various countries in that quarter go year by year to the mountain, and present offerings to Kasyapa; and to those whose hearts are strong in faith there come Arhats at night, and talk with them, discussing and explaining their doubts, and disappearing suddenly afterwards.

CHAPTER XXXV ~Dakshina, and the Pigeon Monastery~ South from this two hundred yojanas, there is a country named Dakshina, where there is a monastery dedicated to the by-gone Kasyapa Buddha, and which has been hewn out from a large hill of rock.

These are the maidens of the race of the Nagas, who are said to have sprung from Kadru, wife of Kasyapa.

Those foremost of Rishis, Valmiki, and Kasyapa, and Atreya, and Kundajathara, and Viswamitra, and Gautama, and Asita, and Devala, and Markandeya, and Galava, and Bharadwaja, and Vasishtha, and the Muni Uddalaka, and Saunaka with his son, and Vyasa, that best of ascetics, and Durvasas, that foremost of Munis, and Javali of great austeritiesall these illustrious Rishis endued with wealth of asceticism, are staying in expectation of thee.

And this is a hermitage, with a holy name, belonging to Kasyapa of mighty soul; whose son was Rishyasringa, devoted to penances, and of passions under control.

That powerful and mighty son of Kasyapa was born of a hind.

And when the crops had been restored, king Lomapada gave his daughter Santa in marriage to him, as the sun gave in marriage his daughter Savitri.' "Yudhishthira said, 'How was the son of Kasyapa, Rishyasringa, born of a hind?

And that son of Kasyapa, Vibhandaka, having proceeded to a big lake, devoted himself to the practice of penances.

Then she moored the vessel at no great distance from the hermitage of Kasyapa's son, and sent emissaries to survey the place where that same saint habitually went about.

What is the name of this particular religious vow, which thou seemest to be observing now?" "'The courtesan said, "O son of Kasyapa!

At that moment appeared Vibhandaka, Kasyapa's son, he whose eyes were tawny like those of a lion, whose body was covered with hair down to the tip of the nails, who was devoted to studies proper for his caste, and whose life was pure and was passed in religious meditation.

In the meanwhile, when the son of Kasyapa had gone out to gather fruits, then that very courtesan came again to tempt Rishyasringa in the manner described above.

those same courtesans by contrivances made the only son of Kasyapa enter their bark, and unmoored the vessel.

On the mighty occasion of that sacrifice, the Self-existent One made a gift of this entire earth with all its hilly and forest tracts, to Kasyapa, by way of gratuity, for ministering as a priest.

Then when the blessed saint Kasyapa beheld the goddess Earth, despondent and sad, he, O protector of men, performed a propitiatory act calculated to appease her wrath.

And, O protector of human beings, he raised an altar made of gold, ten Vyamas in breadth and nine in height, and made a gift of the same to the magnanimous Kasyapa.

Then at Kasyapa's bidding the Brahmanas divided the altar into a number of shares, and thus they became reputed as the Khandavayamas (share takers).

And the exterminator of the military race possessed of immense strength, bestowed the earth upon the high-souled Kasyapa, and then became engaged in penance of an exceedingly severe form.

Here, O scion of Bharata's race, is the spot, where a conference took place between Agni and the sage Kasyapa, and also between Nahusha's son and the sages of the north.

The saintly man, though descended from the great Kasyapa, must be very deficient in judgment to habituate such a maiden to the life of a recluse.