Dighanikaya 26.80_7

26.80_7

Atha kho, bhikkhave, lāpo sakuṇo naṅgalakaṭṭhakaraṇaṃ leḍḍuṭṭhānaṃ gantvā mahantaṃ leḍḍuṃ abhiruhitvā sakuṇagghiṃ vadamāno aṭṭhāsi ‘‘ehi kho dāni me sakuṇagghi, ehi kho dāni me sakuṇagghī’’ti. Atha kho sā, bhikkhave, sakuṇagghi sake bale apatthaddhā sake bale asaṃvadamānā ubho pakkhe sannayha lāpaṃ sakuṇaṃ sahasā ajjhappattā. Yadā kho, bhikkhave, aññāsi lāpo sakuṇo bahuāgatā kho myāyaṃ sakuṇagghīti, atha kho tasseva leḍḍussa antaraṃ paccupādi. Atha kho, bhikkhave, sakuṇagghi tattheva uraṃ paccatāḷesi. Evañhi taṃ, bhikkhave, hoti yo agocare carati paravisaye.

Then, mendicants, the quail went to a place of clods turned up by the plow, climbed up on a large clod, and stood challenging the hawk: ‘Come on now, hawk! Come on now, hawk!’ Then, mendicants, that hawk, overweening in her own strength, bragging about her own strength, folded both wings and swooped down suddenly on the quail. But when, mendicants, the quail knew, ‘This hawk has come very close,’ he slipped right inside that clod. Then, mendicants, the hawk shattered her own breast right there. Thus it is, mendicants, for one who roams out of their resort, in the territory of others.