Dhammapada 4.3.p25

4.3.p25

Rañño carapurisā taṃ kathaṃ sutvā gantvā tesaṃ niddosabhāvaṃ rañño kathayiṃsu. Rājā saṃvegappatto tassā nivesanaṃ gantvā mallikañca suṇisāyo cassā khamāpetvā mallikāya varaṃ adāsi. Sā ‘‘varo gahito me hotū’’ti vatvā tasmiṃ gate matakabhattaṃ datvā nhatvā rājānaṃ upasaṅkamitvā vanditvā, ‘‘deva, tumhehi mayhaṃ varo dinno, mayhañca aññena attho natthi, dvattiṃsāya me suṇisānaṃ mamañca kulagharagamanaṃ anujānāthā’’ti āha. Rājā sampaṭicchi. Sā dvattiṃsa suṇisāyo yathāsakāni kulāni pesesi, sayampi kusinārānagare attano kulagharaṃ agamāsi.

So when the king had departed and she had given the feast in honor of the dead, she bathed, and approaching the king, said, “Your majesty, you granted me a boon. I desire nothing other than this, that you permit me and my two and thirty daughters-in-law to return to the homes of our families.” The king consented, and she thereupon sent her two and thirty daughters-in-law to their respective homes and herself went to the city of Kusinārā to the house of her own family. The king appointed to the post of commander-in-chief of the army Dīghakārāyaṇa, a nephew of the former commander-in-chief Bandhula. And Dīghakārāyaṇa went about reviling the king and saying, “It was the king that killed my uncle.”