[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c31.2538 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2538 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.2538 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.2538](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2538) This plan having failed, Mägandiyā hired a slave to revile and abuse the Buddha in the streets. Ananda suggested to the Buddha that they should go elsewhere. The Buddha answered, “I am like the elephant who has entered the fray, I must endure the darts that come upon me.” After seven days the abuse ceased. Mägandiyā then persuaded her uncle to send eight live cocks to the palace and sent a page with them to the king's drinking-place. When the king asked what should be done with them, she suggested that Sāmāvatī and her friends should be asked to cook them for him. This the king agreed to do, but the women refuse to deprive an animal of its life. Mägandiyā said they should be tested, and sent word by the page that the cocks were to be cooked for the Buddha. The page was bribed to change the live cocks for dead ones on the way, and Sāmāvatī and her companions then cooked them and sent them to the Buddha. But even then the king, though not knowing of the exchange, would not be convinced of Sāmāvatī's disloyalty. - [Previous: v2.c31.2537](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2537) - [Next: v2.c31.2539](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2539) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2538](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2538) · Pramāṇa