Buddhist Legends1. The Chapter about the Pairs1.12. Devadatta’s Career-----------------------Devadatta grew jealous and plotted to kill the Buddha, when that failed he tried to cause a schism; eventually he wished to seek for forgiveness, but before he reached the Buddha he fell into Avīci, the hell of relentless suffering; the Buddha summarised the events with a verse.-----------------------Here he suffers, after death he suffers,the wicked one suffers in both places,he suffers, thinking: “I have done evil,”gone to a bad fate, he suffers much more.-----------------------#buddhistlegends #buddhism