Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.803

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This roused the king’s jealousy, and he sent for the executioner and had the prince’s hands and feet and head cut off and his body encircled with sword-cuts “as though with a garland.” He paid no heed to Candā’s lamentations, and she, in her great sorrow, fell down dead of a broken heart. Flames arose from Avīci, and wrapping Mahāpatāpa about, “as with a woollen garment,” plunged him in the lowest hell.