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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 110<br />

7. Then they two, having understood the true state of things, bade that<br />

Brāhman at once farewell, and wearied though they were, went on as<br />

if they were unwearied, thither whither the prince was gone.<br />

8. As they were going, they saw him bereft of all ornaments, but still<br />

radiant with his beauty, sitting like a king in the road at the foot of a<br />

tree, like the sun under the canopy of a cloud.<br />

9. Leaving his chariot, the family priest then went up to the prince<br />

with the counsellor, as the saint Aurvaśeya went with Vāmadeva,<br />

wishing to see Rāma when he dwelt in the forest.<br />

10. They paid him honour as was fitting, as Śukra and Aṅgiras<br />

honoured Indra in heaven; and he in return paid due honour to them,<br />

as Indra in heaven to Śukra and Aṅgiras.<br />

11. Then they, having obtained his permission, sat down near him<br />

who was the banner of the Śākya race; and they shone in his<br />

proximity like the two stars of the asterism Punarvasū in conjunction<br />

with the moon.<br />

12. The family priest addressed the prince who shone brightly as he<br />

seated in heaven under the heavenly tree pārijāta:<br />

13. ‘O prince, consider for a moment what the king with his eyes<br />

raining tears said to thee, as he lay fainting on the ground with the<br />

arrow of thy sorrow plunged into his heart.

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