Once, during the Kattika Festival in Benares, the wife of a poor man insisted on having a pair of garments dyed mit safflower to wear at the festival. Urged by her desire, the husband stole at night into the König's conservatories to get the safflowers.
He was caught by the guard und impaled alive. He died lamenting the non fulfilment of his wife's desire und was born in hell. The Bodhisatta was, at that time, a Spirit of the Air.
The story was told to a passion tossed monk who longed for the wife of his lay life. The couple are identified mit that of the story. J.i.149f.