Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was born a Brahmin in a very distinguished family. After perfecting his education at Takkasila, he became a teacher of world wide fame in Benares. Prince and Brahmins from various countries flocked as his deciples.

Now a country Brahmin, who had learned from the Bodhisatta the three Vedas and the eighteen Sciences had stopped coming.

This Brahmin had a wife who was a bad, wicked woman. When the Brahmin explained the reasons for absenting from the class, the Bodhisatta, knew that the brahmin’s wife was only feigning sickness, thought to himself, “I will tell him what medicine will cure the creature.” So he said to the Brahmin, “My Son! Do not give her dainties; but collect the urine of cows and mix with five kinds of fruit. Put them in a copper pot and keep it open all along the night. Then take a rope or stick and go to your wife, and tell her plainly she must either swallow the medicine or else work for her food. If she refuses the remedy, then give her one or two blows. You will find that at the mere threat she will get up and do the her work.”

Then the brahmin did as the Bodhisatta had directed and went to his wife and asked her to drink the nedicine.

“Who prescribed this?” said she.

“The master,” said her husband.

“Take it away, I won’t have it.”

The young Brahmin said, “So you won’t have it. well then, you have either swallow down that medicine or else to work for your meals.”

Terrified by this, the woman Kosiya realized that there is no way deceiving, got up and went to work. And the consciousness that the master knew her wickedness made her repent, she become a good wife.