Seen by Moggallāna as he came from Gijjhakūta to Rājagaha 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 Avīci 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