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Updated: April 30, 2025
As he looked at their sleeping forms he felt disgust and ordered Channa, his charioteer, to saddle Kaṇṭhaka, a gigantic white horse, eighteen cubits long from head to tail. Meanwhile he went to his wife's room and took a last but silent look as she lay sleeping with her child. Then he started on horseback attended by Channa and a host of heavenly beings who opened the city gates.
According to "Buddhist Birth Stories," p. 87, the noble horse never returned to the city, but died of grief at being left by his master, to be reborn immediately in the Trayastrimsas heaven as the deva Kanthaka! Beal and Giles call this the "Ashes" tope. It was over the place of Buddha's cremation. In Pali Kusinara. The Sala tree, the Shorea robusta, which yields the famous teak wood.
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