Kanthaka.-See Kanthaka.

Source: Dictionary of Pali Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from "The Pali Text Society, London"
 

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from

Kanthaka 

Name of the Buddha's horse, said to have been pure white in colour and born on the same day as the Buddha. Kanthaka features prominently in the story of the Great Renunciation where Prince Siddhārtha renounces the world and leaves his father's palace. The horse carries him 30 leagues away from the city, with Channa the charioteer holding onto its tail. When the Buddha crosses the river Anomā, the horse remains on the other side where it dies of grief but is reborn in heaven.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)

kanthaka m. N. of a man, g. gargâdi Pāṇ. 4-1, 105
• (ā), f. a species of Opuntia L

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William