The teacher knew that Ahimsaka always listened to his elders, so he decided to give Ahimsaka an impossible task, so that he would never return home. The teacher called Ahimsaka and told him that in order to graduate, he needed to collect one thousand little fingers. Instead of giving up, Ahimsaka set out to collect one thousand little fingers. However, he soon discovered that most people wouldn’t easily give up their little fingers. So he hid in the forest and murdered people to get their fingers. He found he had nowhere to store these fingers. So he put them on a string around his neck, to keep count. Because of this gruesome necklace of fingers, he was nicknamed Angulimala, meaning ‘finger garland