Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 82
62. The hunter replied, ‘It has given me my desire, O giver of desires,
as by this I have inspired animals with confidence and then killed
them; but if thou hast need of it, O thou who art like Indra, accept it
at once and give me the white dress.’
63. With extreme joy he then took that sylvan dress and gave away
the linen one; and the hunter, assuming his heavenly form, having
taken the white garment, went to heaven.
64. Then the prince and the attendant of the horse were filled with
wonder as he was thus going, and forthwith they paid great honour
anew to that sylvan dress.
65. Then the great-souled one, having dismissed the weeping Chaṁda,
and wearing his fame veiled by the sign of the red garment, went
towards the hermitage, like the king of mountains wrapped in an
evening cloud.
66. While his master, thus regardless of his kingdom, was going to the
ascetic-wood in mean garments, the groom, tossing up his arms,
wailed bitterly and fell on the ground.
67. Having looked again he wept aloud, and embraced the horse
Kaṁthaka with his arms; and then, hopeless and repeatedly lamenting,
he went in body to the city, not in soul.
68. Sometimes he pondered, sometimes he lamented, sometimes he
stumbled, and sometimes he fell; and so going along, wretched