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250. The Bodhisatta And The Yakkha

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life as the son of his chief queen. And when he was of age, he was instructed in all the arts and on the death of his father was established in his kingdom and governed it righteously.

At that time men were devoted to the worship of the gods and made religious offerings to them by slaughter of many goats, rams and the like, the Bodhisatta proclaimed by beat of drum, “No living creature is to be put to death.”