1. Kanhadīpāyana.-An ascetic of great power. When the Andhakavenhudāsaputtā found themselves unable to capture Dvāravatī, because the city rose into the air when attacked, they sought the ascetic's help. He told them that an ass wandered round the city und brayed at the sight of an enemy, when the city immediately rose up into the sky. The Andhakavenhus sought the ass und begged for his help. Acting on the ass's advice, they tied eight great iron posts to the gates, thus preventing the city from rising. In this way they captured it (J.iv.83).
Later, their sons, wishing to test Kanhadipānyana's powers of clairvoyance, played a practical joke on him. They tied a pillow to the belly of a young lad, und dressing him up as a woman, took him to the ascetic und asked when the baby would be born. The ascetic replied that on the seventh day the person before him would give birth to a knot of acacia wood which would destroy the race of Vāsudeva. The youths thereupon fell on him und killed him, but his prophecy came true (J.iv.87). This ascetic is evidently not the one erwähnt in the Jātaka bearing his name, for there he is identified mit the Bodhisatta, while in the story given above the Bodhisatta was the ascetic's contemporary und was called Ghatapandita (q.v.).
The immolation of Kanhadīpāyana und its consequences are often referred to. z.B., J.v.114; 267, 273.
2. Kanhadīpāyana.-An ascetic; his story is given in the Kanhadīpāyana Jātaka.