對阿羅毗比丘的稱呼，他們過度熱衷營造工程、砍伐樹木，曾激怒一位樹神與當地民眾，佛陀因而制止他們並宣說《蛇經》。

A name given to the monks of Āḷavī, whose over-zealous building activities and tree-felling once so provoked a tree-spirit and the local populace that the Buddha had to restrain them and teach the Uraga Sutta.

Āḷavi 國王，一次狩獵時誤入一棵榕樹的陰影，該樹是食人夜叉的棲所，他被迫承諾定期奉上一名人質與一鉢食物才得以脫身。

The king of Āḷavi who, while hunting, strayed into the shadow of a banyan tree inhabited by a man-eating yakkha and secured his release only by promising to supply the spirit with a human victim and a bowl of food at regular intervals.

那位要求定期以人祭食的夜叉，其索求最終連國王親生之子也難以倖免，佛陀趁其外出時進入其宮殿，以說法將其降伏。

The man-eating spirit whose demand for a periodic human sacrifice was ultimately extended even to the king’s own son, until the Buddha entered its dwelling in its absence and won it over through teaching.