Suicide/Murder of Bimbisara
According to the Jain tradition the king committed suicide while according to Buddhist tradition he was brutally murdered.
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Famous quotes containing the words suicide and/or murder:
“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
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“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ the building.”
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