Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 99
her voice choking with emotion through the influence of
despondency:
32. ‘Leaving me helplessly asleep in the night, whither, O Chaṁdaka,
is he, the desire of my heart, gone and when thou and Kaṁthaka are
alone come back, while three went away together, my mind trembles.
33. ‘Why dost thou weep to-day, O cruel one, having done a
dishonourable, pitiless, and unfriendly deed to me Cease thy tears
and be content in thy heart, – tears and that deed of thine ill agree.
34. ‘Through thee, his dear obedient faithful loyal companion, always
doing what was right, the son of my lord is gone never to return, –
rejoice, – all hail! thy pains have gained their end.
35. ‘Better for a man a wise enemy rather than a foolish friend
unskilled in emergencies; by thee, the unwise self-styled friend, a
great calamity has been brought upon this family.
36. ‘These women are sorely to be pitied who have put away their
ornaments, having their eyes red and dimmed with continuous tears,
who are as it were desolate widows, though their lord still stands as
unshaken as the earth or Mount Himavat.
37. ‘And these lines of palaces seem to weep aloud, flinging up their
dovecots for arms, with the long unbroken moan of their doves, –
separated verily, with him, from all who could restrain them.