Dhammapada 2.1.p5

2.1.p5

Tadā ca himavantapadese thokaṃ vaḍḍhitvā maṇḍapākārena ṭhito eko mahānigrodho hoti. So sakuṇo migarūpādīni tattha netvā khādati, tasmā tampi tattheva netvā viṭapabbhantare ṭhapetvā āgatamaggaṃ olokesi. Āgatamaggolokanaṃ kira tesaṃ dhammatā. Tasmiṃ khaṇe devī, ‘‘idāni imaṃ palāpetuṃ vaṭṭatī’’ti cintetvā ubho hatthe ukkhipitvā pāṇisaddañceva mukhasaddañca katvā taṃ palāpesi. Athassā sūriyatthaṅgamanakāle gabbhe kammajavātā caliṃsu. Sabbadisāsu gajjanto mahāmegho uṭṭhahi. Sukhedhitāya rājamahesiyā ‘‘mā bhāyi, ayye’’ti vacanamattampi alabhamānāya dukkhaparetāya sabbarattiṃ niddā nāma nāhosi. Vibhātāya pana rattiyā valāhakavigamo ca aruṇuggamanañca tassā gabbhavuṭṭhānañca ekakkhaṇeyeva ahosi. Sā meghautuñca pabbatautuñca aruṇautuñca gahetvā jātattā puttassa utenoti nāmaṃ akāsi.

Now there stood at that time in the Himālaya country a banyan-tree which, although of brief growth, had attained great size and was like a pavilion in form; and to this tree that bird was accustomed to convey the carcasses of wild animals and eat them. To this very tree, therefore, the bird conveyed the queen, lodged her in a fork of the tree, and watched the path leading to the tree. (It is the nature of these birds, we are told, to watch the path leading to their tree.) At that moment the queen, thinking to herself, “Now is the time to frighten him away,” raised both her hands, clapped them together and shouted, and frightened the bird away.

At sunset the pains of travail came upon her, and at the same time from all the four quarters of heaven arose a great storm. The delicate queen, half dead with suffering, with no one beside her to say to her, “Fear not, lady,” slept not at all throughout the night. As the night grew bright, the clouds scattered, the dawn came, and her child was born at one and the same moment. Because the child was born at the time (utu) of a storm, at the time when she was upon a mountain, and at the time when the sun rose, she named her son Udena.