At one time when the Buddha was staying in the house with the peaked roof in the Great Wood near Vesālī, Venerable Upāli’s preceptor, Venerable Kappita, was staying in a charnel ground. At that time the leader of the nuns from the group of six had just died. They took her to that charnel ground, cremated her near Venerable Kappita’s dwelling, and made a stupa. They then went there to cry. Venerable Kappita was disturbed by the noise, and so he demolished the stupa and scattered the rubble. The nuns from the group of six thought, “Kappita has demolished our venerable’s stupa; let’s kill him,” and they laid a plan. A certain nun told Venerable Upāli what was happening, and he in turn told Venerable Kappita. Venerable Kappita then left his dwelling and went into hiding. Soon afterwards the nuns from the group of six went to his dwelling and crushed it with rocks and lumps of earth. When they thought he was dead, they left. The following morning Venerable Kappita robed up, took his bowl and robe, and entered Vesālī for almsfood. When the nuns from the group of six saw him, they said, “Kappita is alive! Who spoiled our plan?” When they heard it was Venerable Upāli, they abused him, “How could this barber, this dirt remover of inferior caste, spoil our plan?”