Seen by Moggallána as he came from
Gijjhakúta to Rájagaha in the company of Lakkhana. He revealed the peta's story
in the presence of the Buddha. In the long past men had erected a bower of
leaves and grass on the banks of the river near Benares for a Pacceka Buddha.
Here residents from the city would visit him morning and evening with offerings.
On the way they had to pass a field, which in their many journeying they
trampled and damaged. The farmer tried in vain to prevent them. One day, in
exasperation, when the Pacceka Buddha was away, the farmer burnt his bower,
destroying everything in it. When he confessed his guilt the followers of the
Pacceka Buddha beat him to death. He suffered in Avíci till the earth was
elevated one league, and was thereafter born a peta, twenty-five leagues in
length, his body enveloped in flames. DhA.ii