FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF ADJATASATRU'S REIGN TO THE DEATH OF THE BUDDHA

SHORTLY after Adjatasatru had become king of Magadha, and while the Buddha was on the Vulture's Peak near Rajagriha, in the abode of the yaksha Kumbhira, Devadatta asked the king to assist him in becoming Buddha, "For you owe your crown to me," he said.