Dhammapada 4.3.p28

4.3.p28

Viṭaṭūbhopi rajjaṃ labhitvā taṃ veraṃ saritvā ‘‘sabbepi sākiye māressāmī’’ti mahatiyā senāya nikkhami. Taṃ divasaṃ satthā paccūsakāle lokaṃ volokento ñātisaṅghassa vināsaṃ disvā, ‘‘ñātisaṅgahaṃ kātuṃ vaṭṭatī’’ti cintetvā pubbaṇhasamaye piṇḍāya caritvā, piṇḍapātapaṭikkanto gandhakuṭiyaṃ sīhaseyyaṃ kappetvā, sāyanhasamaye ākāsena gantvā, kapilavatthusāmante ekasmiṃ kabaracchāye rukkhamūle nisīdi. Tato viṭaṭūbhassa rajjasīmāya mahanto sandacchāyo nigrodho atthi. Viṭaṭūbho satthāraṃ disvā upasaṅkamitvā vanditvā, ‘‘bhante, kiṃ kāraṇā evarūpāya uṇhavelāya imasmiṃ kabaracchāye rukkhamūle nisīdatha, etasmiṃ sandacchāye nigrodhamūle nisīdatha, bhante’’ti vatvā, ‘‘hotu, mahārāja, ñātakānaṃ chāyā nāma sītalā’’ti vutte, ‘‘ñātakānurakkhanatthāya satthā āgato bhavissatī’’ti cintetvā satthāraṃ vanditvā nivattitvā sāvatthiṃyeva paccāgami. Satthāpi uppatitvā jetavanameva gato.

When Viḍūḍabha became king, he remembered his grudge. And saying to himself, "I will slay all the Sākiyas," he set out with a large army. On that day, as the Teacher surveyed the world at dawn, he saw the impending destruction of his kinsfolk. And thinking, "I must protect my kinsfolk," he went on his round for alms in the morning; and returning from his alms-pilgrimage, lay down lion-like on his right side in the Perfumed Chamber; and in the evening went through the air and sat down at the foot of a tree with scanty shade in the vicinity of Kapilavatthu. Not far from there, on the boundary of Viḍūḍabha's kingdom, stood a great banyan-tree giving dense shade.

Viḍūḍabha, seeing the Teacher, approached him, paid obeisance to him, and said, "Reverend Sir, why do you sit at the foot of this tree with scanty shade when it is so hot? Sit at the foot of this banyan-tree which gives dense shade, Reverend Sir." "Be not concerned, great king. The shade of my kinsmen keeps me cool." "The Teacher must have come for the purpose of protecting his kinsfolk," thought

Viḍūḍabha, and having paid obeisance to the Teacher, he turned and went back to Sāvatthi. The Teacher rose into the air and returned to Jetavana.