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Kassapa

[kah-shuhp-uh]
noun
  1. Kasyapa.
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  • It relates how the chamber in which a Brahman called Kassapa kept his sacred fire was haunted by a fire-breathing magical serpent.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3)

    Charles Eliot

  • Kassapa finally proposed that the Sangha should adopt without alteration or addition the rules made by the Buddha.

  • Buddha converted a tribe of them, and Kassapa, their chief, became one of his most prominent disciples.