Mahāvessantarajātaka

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Jātaka (2) · Vol. 28 · Section 1188

[1188] "This is more painful than that, as a wound pierced by a dart — that today I do not see the two children, Jāli and Kaṇhājinā both. This too is a second dart that makes my heart tremble: that I do not see the children, and that you do not speak to me. If this very night, O prince, you do not speak to me, then in the morning, I think, you will surely see me dead, my life departed."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.