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Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Khandhavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 17 · Section 525

[525] Sāvatthī. Sitting to one side, that bhikkhu said this to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, what is the cause, what is the condition, whereby someone here, with the breakup of the body, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born (jalābuja) nāgas?" … "This, bhikkhu, is the cause, this is the condition, whereby someone here, with the breakup of the body, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born nāgas."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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