Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 103
57. ‘He who was proud of his family, goodness, strength, energy,
sacred learning, beauty, and youth, – who was ever ready to give, not
to ask, – how will he go about begging alms from others
58. ‘He who, lying on a spotless golden bed, was awakened during the
night by the concert of musical instruments, – how alas! will he, my
ascetic, sleep to-day on the bare ground with only one rag of cloth
interposed’
59. Having heard this piteous lamentation, the women, embracing one
another with their arms, rained the tears from their eyes, as the
shaken creepers drop honey from their flowers.
60. Then Yaśodharā fell upon the ground, like the ruddy goose parted
from her mate, and in utter bewilderment she slowly lamented, with
her voice repeatedly stopped by sobs:
61. ‘If he wishes to practise a religious life after abandoning me his
lawful wife widowed, – where is his religion, who wishes to follow
penance without his lawful wife to share it with him
62. ‘He surely has never heard of the monarchs of olden times, his
own ancestors, Mahāsudarśa and the rest, – how they went with their
wives into the forest, – that he thus wishes to follow a religious life
without me.
63. ‘He does not see that husband and wife are both consecrated in
sacrifices, and both purified by the performance of the rites of the