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70. JUSTICE DONE
In Rajagrha there was a lovely park where citizens went for the pleasure of a stroll in the evening, and a beggar frequented this place for alms. Once he got nothing and he was very angry. He therefore climbed up an adjoining hill on the slope of which the citizens of Rājagtha were relaxing comfortably. The beggar's idea was to punish them by pushing a huge boulder from the top of the hill over them and crush them and kill them, the miserly lot.
As the beggar tried to dislodge the rock, it unfortunately fell on the other side and it was the beggar who was crushed and killed under it. The wicked beggar was re-born as a hell-being in the hell called Apratisthāna.
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