Kisa Saṅkicca untranslated

Kisa Saṅkicca. A naked ascetic (acelaka), contemporary with Gotama Buddha and evidently a well-known head of a school; mentioned in company with Nanda Vaccha and Makkhali Gosāla (e.g., MN.i.238).

Kisa Saṅkicca is spoken of as one of the three shining lights of the Ājīvakas (MN.i.524) and is classified among the paramasukkhābhijātas in the chaḷabhijāti of the Ājīvakas (q.v.) (AN.iii.384; DN­a.i.162).

Buddhaghosa says (MN­a.i.463) that Kisa was his personal name and Saṅkicca that of his gotta.