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In the case of any army, majority soldiers believed that the spirited
mercenaries (yodhjva) who killed as much as possible enemies in battle, was
reborn in heaven. And they asked the Buddhas opinion as whether or not such
ideology was correct that We have been heard it being said among
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. SN. II. Pp. 495-6

mercenaries, ancient teachers of teachers, thus: For a mercenary who strives

and exerts himself in battle, after death, with the bodys breaking up, he is
reborn in the company of the fallen-warrior2 devas.
The Buddha answer about that: if, while he is striving and exerting
himself, and others slay him or seize him, then with the bodys breaking up, he
is reborn in the fallen-warrior hell. Because, for a mercenary, his mind is
previously already debased, depraved, misdirected and thinking of barbarian
idea: Let these beings be slain, or slaughtered, or destroyed, or exterminated.
If, however he has the aforesaid view, this is a wrong view. For an individual
with wrong view, there is one of two destinies, either hell or an animal birth.
When this was said, the mercenaries cried out and burst into tears because we
have been tricked, cheated and deceived for a long time by those mercenaries in
the ancient lineage of teachers.

. Parjita.