THE BUDDHA TAMED A CELESTIAL ORGE, ALAVAKA, WHO THEN TOOK REFUGE IN THE TRIPLE GEM IN BUDDHISM.

On the sixteenth year of His Enlightment, the Buddha tamed the carnivorous Demon King, Alavaka who feasted on human flesh, to give up his habit on devouring at least one human being everyday. After hearing the Buddha's Teaching, he henceforth gave up his habit, thus sparing the small child offered to him as food on that day.