Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 106
75. ‘After having done many dear exploits for me in battle, one great
deed of cruelty, O Kaṁthaka, hast thou done, – for by thee that dear
son of mine, dear for his every virtue, has been tossed down in the
wood, dear as he was, like a worthless thing.
76. ‘Therefore either lead me to-day where he is, or go quickly and
bring him back again; without him there is no life left to me, as to
one plunged in sickness without the true medicine.
77. ‘When Suvarṇaniṣṭhīvin was carried away by death, it seemed
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loving son is gone, fear to set my soul free, like any coward
78. ‘How should not the mind of Manu himself be distracted, when
parted from his dear virtuous son, – (Manu) the son of Vivasvat, who
knew the higher and the lower, the mighty lord of creatures, the
institutor of the ten chieftains.
79. ‘I envy the monarch, that friend of Indra, the wise son of king
Aja, who, when his son went into the forest, went himself to heaven,
and dragged out no miserable life here with vain tears.
80. ‘Describe to me, O beloved one, the court of that hermitage,
whither thou hast carried him who is as my funeral oblation of water;
these my vital airs are all ready to depart, and are eager for it,
longing to drink it.’