Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c9.1606

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Ussada was considered a place of great suffering,² and also a place where those who, having promised a gift fail to give it, are born.³ Once the Bodhisatta was born in Ussada, for cruelty during his reign as king of Benares, and he suffered for eighty thousand years.⁴ Beings born there have their tongues pierced with glowing hooks and are dragged about on a floor of heated metal.⁵