• Ahinda Sutta

For self-protection one should practise amity for the four royal families of snakes:

• Virúpakkha

• Erápatha

• Chabyáputta

• Kashá-gotamaka

It was preached when a monk was bitten by a snake at Sávatthi. A.ii.72. Cp. Vin.ii.109; SA.ii.144.

Another name for it is the Khandhaka Paritta.