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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXXII
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They replied that it was only a man of extreme wickedness who could make it; and the king thereupon sent officers to seek everywhere for (such) a bad man; and they saw by the side of a pond a man tall and strong, with a black countenance, yellow hair, and green eyes, hooking up the fish with his feet, while he called to him birds and beasts, and, when they came, then shot and killed them, so that not one escaped.

Having got this man, they took him to the king, who secretly charged him, "You must make a square enclosure with high walls.

Plant in it all kinds of flowers and fruits; make good ponds in it for bathing; make it grand and imposing in every way, so that men shall look to it with thirsting desire; make its gates strong and sure; and when any one enters, instantly seize him and punish him as a sinner, not allowing him to get out.

Even if I should enter, punish me as a sinner in the same way, and do not let me go.

I now appoint you master of that naraka." Soon after this a bhikshu, pursuing his regular course of begging his food, entered the gate (of the place).


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