Kakkhaḷa untranslated

Kakkhaḷa. A nickname given to Jeṭṭhatissa I. When certain of his ministers shewed reluctance to accompany his father’s funeral procession, he finally persuaded them; but when they were assembled he had the gates shut on them, put them to death, and had their bodies empaled on stakes round his father’s pyre. Hence his name. Mhv.xxxvi.118-22.