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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

King of Kumbhavati in Kalinga (M.i.378; MA.ii.599ff; J.iii.463; v.133ff; 267; Mtu.iii.363ff).

Kisavaccha, pupil of Sarabhanga, desiring solitude, lived in the royal park near the city, and was ill treated by Dandaki and his army while on their way to quell a rebellion, they being under the impression that insult inflicted on Kisavaccha would bring them luck.

As a result the gods were greatly incensed and destroyed the king and his country, only three people escaping death: Kisavaccha, the commander in chief, who was a pious follower of Kisavaccha, and a man named Rama, who had come from Benares to Kumbhavati. The last named was saved from destruction owing to his care for his parents. The forest which grew on the desolate land came to be called Dandakaranna.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Daṇḍaki (दण्डकि) is the name of a king whose country was destroyed according to the Jātaka and Papañca mentioned in Appendix 1 of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XXIV).—Accordingly, “Kisavaccha, disciple of Sarabhaṅga, in search of solitude, was established in King Daṇḍaki’s park, near the city of Kumbhavatī in Kaliṅga. One day when King Daṇḍaki was leaving to suppress a revolt, he thought he could make himself lucky by spitting on Kisavaccha and throwing his tooth-pick at him. The gods were indignant, killed the king and destroyed the whole country. Only three people escaped death: the Ṛṣi Kisavaccha, the leader of the army who had become his disciple, and a certain Rāma, originally from Benares, who was spared as a result of his filial piety. The forest that grew up in that desolated land was called Daṇḍakārañña”.

According to the Mahāvastu (III, p. 363).—Vatsa, suffering from a wind sickness and unable to withstand the bitter cold at Anuhimavat, went away to the Dekhan, to the city of Govardhana. King Daṇḍaki, who reigned there, was an irreligious man and an impious king without the correct view, eager for pleasure, full of wrong ideas, ignoring his mother and father, with neither religious life nor chastity, cruel, pitiless and violent. Seeing the Ṛṣi Vatsa, he buried this peaceful, harmless and innocent man in the earth.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Daṇḍaki (दण्डकि).—(n) , name of a wicked king (of Govardhana): [Page261-b+ 71] Mahāvastu iii.363.6, 16; 364.20; 365.16; 368.14; 369.2. His story is comparable to that of Pali Daṇḍakī (Malalasekara (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names)), tho quite different in details; see s.v. Vatsa (1).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Dāṇḍaki (दाण्डकि):—[from dāṇḍa] m. [patronymic] [from] daṇḍaka

2) [v.s. ...] [plural] Name of a tribe belonging to the Tri-gartas, [Pāṇini 5-3, 116; Kāśikā-vṛtti]

[Sanskrit to German]

Dandaki in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Starts with: Dandakiya.

Full-text: Dandakiya, Vighushta, Kumbhavati, Dandakya, Dandakaranna, Bhimaratha, Vatsa, Rama, Kukkula, Kisavaccha, Sarabhanga, Anuhimavat, Sarabhanga Jataka, Uggata, Kisa Vaccha, Kalinga.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Appendix 1 - Destruction of the forests of Daṇḍaka, Kāliṅga, Mejjha and Mātaṅga < [Chapter XXIV - The Virtue of Patience]

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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)

Jataka 522: Sarabhaṅga-jātaka < [Volume 5]

Jataka 423: Indriya-jātaka < [Volume 3]

Jataka 530: Saṃkicca-jātaka < [Volume 5]

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