Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.1141

v2.c35.1141

⁴ According to Chinese records, Viḍūḍabha took five hundred Sākyan maidens into his harem, but they refused to submit to him and abused him and his family. He ordered them to be killed, their hands and feet to be cut off, and their bodies thrown into a ditch. The Buddha sent a monk to preach to them, and they were reborn after death in heaven. Sakra collected their bones and burnt them (Beal, op. cit. ii. 11 f.). The eleventh Pallava of the Avadānakalpalatā has a similar story. Viḍūḍabha killed seventy-seven thousand Sākyans and stole eighty thousand boys and girls. The girls were rude to him, and he ordered their death.