Attadaṇḍasuttaniddesa 15

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Mahāniddesa · Vol. 29 · Section 797

[797] **"Having seen, fear entered me" (disvā maṃ bhayamāvisi):** "Having seen" (disvā) means having seen, having beheld, having weighed, having judged, having elucidated, having made evident. "Fear" (bhaya) — that is, oppression, affliction, calamity, adversity — entered. Thus: "having seen, fear entered me." Therefore the Blessed One said: Having seen people trembling, like fish in a place of little water, having seen them hostile to one another, fear entered me.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.