UdānaMeghiyavaggaGopālasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Khuddakapāṭha · Dhammapada · Udāna · Itivuttaka · Suttanipāta · Vol. 25 · Section 92

[92] Then, not long after the Blessed One had departed, a certain man deprived that cowherd of life in the border area between the village boundaries. Then a number of bhikkhus approached the Blessed One; having approached and paid homage to the Blessed One, they sat down to one side. Sitting to one side, those bhikkhus said this to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, the cowherd by whom today the Saṅgha of bhikkhus with the Buddha at its head was served and satisfied, with his own hand, with milk-rice made with little water and with fresh ghee — that cowherd, venerable sir, has, it is said, been deprived of life by a certain man in the border area between the village boundaries." Then the Blessed One, having understood the significance of this, on that occasion uttered this inspired utterance (udāna): "Whatever a foe might do to a foe, or a hater to a hater, a wrongly directed mind (citta) would do worse to him than that." The third [sutta].

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.