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PersonAn attendant of King Saddhā Tissa who, tested by a threat of execution, refused to kill pheasants for the royal table, satisfying the king of his integrity before obtaining already-dead birds from a fowler instead.
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.⁵⁶
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