Dhammapada 5.2.p6

5.2.p6

Atīte bārāṇasiyaṃ brahmadatte rajjaṃ kārente himavantapadese eko siṅgilasakuṇo kulāvakaṃ katvā vasi. Athekadivasaṃ deve vassante eko makkaṭo sītena kampamāno taṃ padesaṃ agamāsi. Siṅgilo taṃ disvā gāthamāha –

In times long past, when Brahmadatta reigned at Benāres, a siṅgila bird built him a nest and made his home in the Himālaya country. Now one day, while it was raining, a monkey came there shivering with the cold. The siṅgila saw him and pronounced the following Stanza,