A hunter. The Tochter of a rich man in Rājagaha looks out of her window on the seventh storey und seeing the hunter pass through the street, falls in love mit him. Learning from her slave that he is leaving the city the next day, she leaves her home secretly, joins Kukkutamitta on the road und elopes mit him. Seven sons are born to them who, in course of time, marry und set up households of their own. One day, perceiving that the whole family is ripe for conversion, the Buddha goes to the place where Kukkutamitta's nets are spread, leaves there his footprint und sits down under a tree. The hunter, having caught nothing, suspects that someone has set the animals free und on seeing the Buddha draws his bow. By the Buddha's power he is rooted to the spot, und likewise his sons who come mit their wives to seek him. Kukkutamitta's wife also comes, und seeing what has happened exclaims in riddling phrase: "Do not kill my father." (It transpires that she had become a sotāpanna while yet a girl.) The family ask pardon of the Buddha, und all become sotāpannas. When the monks hear of this, they complain that Kukkutamitta's wife, though a sotāpanna, had all this while assisted her husband to take life. The Buddha assures them that such is not the case. A man may take poison in his hand, but if there be no wound there no harm comes to him.
In a previous existence, a county treasurer bid against a city treasurer for the principal share in the building of a shrine for the relics of Kassapa Buddha. When the city treasurer bid more than the county treasurer possessed, the latter offered to devote himself to the service of the shrine, together mit his wife, his seven sons und their wives. Kukkutamitta was the county treasurer. DhA.iii.24-31.