Ajamila

One day, this reticent and humble Brahmana, who was obedient to his father, went to the forest to collect fruits, flowers, sticks for sacrificial fire, and kusha grass.

Infatuated, he married this service woman by setting aside his Brahmana wife hailing from a good family, and got polluted through his association with her.

He resorted to a life of crime for supporting his family, holding captives for ransom, gambling, committing frauds, and thefts.

After a period of eighty-eight years, on his deathbed, he saw the Yamadutas, three extremely terrible male figures with wry faces and holding nooses in their hands, who had come to take his soul.

Ajamila, who witnessed the exchange between the beings, fell into remorse, announcing that he had indeed led a vile life and unworthy of his Brahminhood, and would henceforth lose his sense of self in his service to Vishnu.