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245. The Bodhisatta And The Usurper

The Bodhisatta became king in Benares. The wicked councilor called in the king of Kosala and got him to seize upon the kingdom of Kasi, and to throw the Bodhisatta into prison. The king of Benares developed ecstatic meditation and sat cross-legged in the air. A fierce heat sprang up in the body of the marauding king, and he went to the king of Benares and repeated the first stanza: