sn.30.4-6 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Both Kinds of Deeds (2nd–4th)

At Sāvatthī.
Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:
“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born phoenixes …
moisture-born phoenixes …
or spontaneously-born phoenixes?”
(All should be told in full.)