Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.741
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c21.741
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43. Tissa.—An attendant of King Saddhā-Tissa. The king, wishing to eat pheasants, asked Tissa to procure some, having first tested him by threatening to have him executed if he refused to kill fowl for the king’s table. Tissa, even when led to the executioner’s block, refused to kill the birds. The king was thus satisfied that Tissa would not kill pheasants for him. The next day, Tissa, seeing a fowler hawking some dead pheasants, obtained them for the king.¹