四大蛇族への慈愛を自己防護の手段として説く経で、サーヴァッティーで一人の比丘が蛇に噛まれた後に説かれ、別名でも知られる。

A discourse teaching loving-kindness toward the four royal families of snakes as a means of self-protection, taught after a monk was bitten by a snake at Sāvatthi, also known by another name.