Pasenadi

Pasenadi
Raja
Pasenadi
Prasenajit of Kosala pays a visit to the Buddha
King of Kosala
Reign534 BCE
PredecessorSanjaya Mahākosala
SuccessorViḍūḍabha
QueenMallika of Kosala
IssueJeta, Virudhaka, Princess Vajira
DynastyIkshvaku
FatherSanjaya Mahākosala
Procession of Prasenajit of Kosala leaving Sravasti to meet the Buddha. Sanchi[1]

Pasenadi or Prasenajit (Pali: पसेनदि, romanized: Pasenadi; Sanskrit: प्रसेनजित्, romanizedPrasenajit;) was a 6th century BCE Aikṣvāka ruler of Kosala, where Shravasti was his capital. He succeeded after Sanjaya Mahākosala.[2] As a king, he was a prominent Upāsaka or lay follower of Gautama Buddha, and built many Buddhist monasteries for the Buddha.

  1. ^ Marshall p.59
  2. ^ Raychaudhuri H. (1972). Political History of Ancient India, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, pp.90,176