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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 50<br />

34. Others, with their golden zones tinkling, wandered about here and<br />

there, showing to him their hips veiled with thin cloth.<br />

35. Others leaned, holding a mango-bough in full flower, displaying<br />

their bosoms like golden jars.<br />

36. Another, coming from a lotus-bed, carrying lotuses and with eyes<br />

like lotuses, stood like the lotus-goddess Padmā, <strong>by</strong> the side of that<br />

lotus-faced prince.<br />

37. Another sang a sweet song easily understood and with the proper<br />

gesticulations, rousing him, self-subdued though he was, <strong>by</strong> her<br />

glances, as saying, ‘O how thou art deluded!’<br />

38. Another, having armed herself with her bright face, with its browbow<br />

drawn to its full, imitated his action, as playing the hero.<br />

39. Another, with beautiful full bosoms, and having her earrings<br />

waving in the wind, laughed loudly at him, as if saying, ‘Catch me,<br />

sir, if you can!’<br />

40. Some, as he was going away, bound him with strings of garlands,<br />

– others punished him with words like an elephant-driver’s hook,<br />

gentle yet reproachful.<br />

41. Another, wishing to argue with him, seizing a mango-spray, asked,<br />

all bewildered with passion, ‘This flower, whose is it’

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