Dhammapada 24.8.p2

24.8.p2

Ekadivasañhi vikāle sambahulā therā jetavanavihāraṃ pavisitvā rāhulattherassa vasanaṭṭhānaṃ gantvā taṃ uṭṭhāpesuṃ. So aññattha vasanaṭṭhānaṃ apassanto tathāgatassa gandhakuṭiyā pamukhe nipajji. Tadā so āyasmā arahattaṃ patto avassikova hoti. Māro vasavattibhavane ṭhitoyeva taṃ āyasmantaṃ gandhakuṭipamukhe nipannaṃ disvā cintesi – ‘‘samaṇassa gotamassa rujanakaaṅgulī bahi nipanno, sayaṃ antogandhakuṭiyaṃ nipanno, aṅguliyā pīḷiyamānāya sayampi pīḷito bhavissatī’’ti. So mahantaṃ hatthirājavaṇṇaṃ abhinimminitvā āgamma soṇḍāya therassa matthakaṃ parikkhipitvā mahantena saddena koñcanādaṃ ravi. Satthā gandhakuṭiyaṃ nisinnova tassa mārabhāvaṃ ñatvā, ‘‘māra, tādisānaṃ satasahassenāpi mama puttassa bhayaṃ uppādetuṃ na sakkā. Putto hi me asantāsī vītataṇho mahāvīriyo mahāpañño’’ti vatvā imā gāthā abhāsi –

For one day several Elders entered the Jetavana monastery at an unseasonable hour, and going to the quarters of Elder Rāhula, woke him up. Rāhula, seeing no other place to sleep, went and lay down in front of the Tathāgata's Perfumed Chamber. This Venerable Elder, although he was but eight years old, had already attained Arahatship. As Māra Vasavattī, keeping his natural form, beheld this Venerable Elder lying in front of the Perfumed Chamber, he thought to himself, "The son of the monk Gotama lies without the Perfumed Chamber, as though his finger hurt him; the monk himself reclines within the Perfumed Chamber, and if the finger of his son be pinched, he himself will feel a pinching." So Māra took the form of a gigantic elephant-king, and drawing near the Elder, encircled the head of the Elder with his trunk, and with a loud voice trumpeted the Heron's Call. The Teacher, even as he reclined in the Perfumed Chamber, perceived that it was Māra, and said, "Māra, with a hundred thousand like yourself, it would be impossible for you to frighten my son. My son is unafraid, devoid of Craving, of mighty vigor, of great wisdom." So saying, he pronounced the following Stanzas,