Jataka 104 Mittavinda

Mittavinda Jataka

Now at that time one of the damned who had put on the circlet and was suffering the tortures of hell, asked the Bodhisatta "Lord, what sin have I committed?" The Bodhisatta detailed the man's evil deeds to him and uttered this stanza:

From four to eight to sixteen thence and so

To thirty two insatiate greed doth go,

Still pressing on till insatiety

Doth win the circlet's griding misery

So saying he went back to the Realm of Devas, but the other abode in hell till his sin had been purged from him. Then he passed thence to fare according to his desserts.