Dhammapada 5.3.p4

5.3.p4

So aparena samayena attano pañca mahānidhiyo puttassa anācikkhitvā dhananissito maccheramalamalino kālaṃ katvā tasseva nagarassa ekasmiṃ dvāragāmake caṇḍālānaṃ kulasahassaṃ paṭivasati. Tatthekissā caṇḍāliyā kucchismiṃ paṭisandhiṃ gaṇhi. Rājā tassa kālakiriyaṃ sutvā puttamassa mūlasiriṃ pakkosāpetvā seṭṭhiṭṭhāne ṭhapesi. Tampi caṇḍālakulasahassaṃ ekatova bhatiyā kammaṃ katvā jīvamānaṃ tassa paṭisandhiggahaṇato paṭṭhāya neva bhatiṃ labhati, na yāpanamattato paraṃ bhattapiṇḍampi. Te ‘‘mayaṃ etarahi kammaṃ karontāpi piṇḍabhattampi na labhāma, amhākaṃ antare kāḷakaṇṇiyā bhavitabba’’nti dve koṭṭhāsā hutvā yāva tassa mātāpitaro visuṃ honti, tāva vibhajitvā ‘‘imasmiṃ kule kāḷakaṇṇī uppannā’’ti tassa mātaraṃ nīhariṃsu.

Some time afterwards, after showing his son his five great stores of treasure, he died, given over to pride and stained with the stains of avarice. Now in a certain village near the gate of that city lived a thousand families of Caṇḍālas, and Ānanda was conceived in the womb of one of these Caṇḍāla women. The king, learning of his death, sent for his son Mūlasiri and appointed him to the post of treasurer.

These thousand families of Caṇḍālas, who made their living by working for hire in a body, from the day of his conception received no more wages and had not a morsel of rice to sustain them. They said to each other, "Although we are now working, we receive no food. There must be a Jonah amongst us." So they divided into two groups and made a thorough investigation while his mother and father were absent, and coming to the conclusion, "A Jonah has arisen in this house," they removed his mother. From the time of his conception she had been able only with great difficulty to procure sufficient food to sustain her. Finally she gave birth to a son.