Mahāvessantarajātaka

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Jātaka (2) · Vol. 28 · Section 1256

[1256] Among the kinsfolk who had come together there arose a great clamor; the mountains resounded, and the earth was shaken; sending forth a torrent of rain, the deva rained down at that very moment. Then King Vessantara came together with his kinsfolk: the grandchildren, the daughter-in-law, the son, the king, and the queen — all in one place. When they had thus come together, then there was a hair-raising moment; with joined palms they beseech him, weeping in the fearsome forest. All those assembled from the realm [beseech] Vessantara and Maddī: "You are our lord, the king; may you both exercise kingship over us." The Chapter named the Six Khattiyas (Chakkhattiyapabba).

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.