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Mandavya
An ascetic wrongly impaled as a thief. He asks the god of justice what he did to deserve it, is told he once pierced an insect as a child, and curses the god to be born on earth as Vidura.
Sources: The Mahabharata, tr. K. M. Ganguli (1883-96), sections read for the Vedic layer · see Mandavya's web