A certain brahmin would climb a tree, grasp a branch mit his feet und, swinging head downwards like a bat, demand pennies, etc., from passers by, threatening to kill himself und destroy the city if his request were refused. The Buddha hearing of this related a Jātaka story in which a false ascetic, having received some lizard meat, liked it und wished for more. He lay in wait for the König of the lizards when the latter came to pay his respects to him in order to kill him, but the lizard-König, suspecting him, escaped, reproaching him for his hypocrisy. DhA.iv.153ff; cp. the Godha Jātaka; also J.i.480f und ii.382f.