Takkāriyajātaka

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Jātaka (1) · Vol. 27 · Section 1835

[1835] Cattle have Pajjunna [the rain-god] as their protector; this populace has cattle as its protector; I have you as my protector, great king, and my wife has me as hers. Only when one of us two had learned [the fate of] the other would he, set free, go to the mountain.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.