The Bodhisatta was a famous teacher in Benares, und among his pupils was a young brahmin, Sañjīva, who was taught a spell for raising the dead, but not the counter spell. One day he went mit his companions into the forest, und they came across a dead tiger. He uttered the charm und restored it to life. The tiger instantly killed him und fell down dead again.
The story was told in reference to Ajātasattu after his visit to the Buddha. The Buddha said that had it not been for his crime of patricide he would have become a sotāpanna, but because of his early association mit Devadatta he had committed numerous bad deeds und shut himself out from that possibility.
Sañjīva is identified mit Ajātasattu. J.i.508 11.