Once upon a time at Takkasila in the land of Gandhara, there was a king reigning there, and the Bodhisatta came to life as a bull. When he was quite a tiny calf, he was presented by his owners to a brahmin. The brahmin called it Nandi – Visala (Great Joy), and treated it like his own child, feeding the young creature on rice-gruel and rice. When the Bodhisatta grew up, he thought to himself, “I have been brought up by this brahmin with great pains. How can I repay the brahmin the cost of my nurture by making proof of my strength?” Accordingly, one day he said to the brahmin “Go brahmin! Go to some merchant and wager him a thousand pieces that your bull can draw a hundred loaded carts.” The brahmin went to a merchant and got into a discussion with him as to whose oxen in the town were the strong. The merchant said,“Oh, so-and-so’s oxen is strongest.” The brahmin said, “I have a bull who can pull a hundred loaded carts.”