Mahāvessantarajātaka

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Jātaka (2) · Vol. 28 · Section 1079

[1079] Like honeycombs abandoned, like mangoes fallen to the ground, so shall your realm become, when they banish one who is guiltless. Like a goose whose wing-feathers have wasted away, in a pool without water, forsaken by your ministers, you, the king, will be left alone to languish. Therefore I say to you, great king: let not your good pass you by; do not, at the word of the Sivis, banish him who is guiltless.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.