The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 103 iti prayāṇa bahudhaivamadbhuta niśamya tāstasya mahātmanaḥ striyaḥ | pranaṣṭaśokā iva vismaya yayurmanojvara pravrajanāttu lebhire || 8.50 50. Having thus heard the history of the prince’s departure, so marvellous in many ways, those women, as though losing their grief, were filled with wonder, but they again took up their distress at the thought of his becoming an ascetic. viṣādapāriplavalocanā tataḥ pranaṣṭapotā kurarīva duḥkhitā | vihāya dhairya virurāva gautamī tatāma caivāśrumukhī jagāda ca || 8.51 51. With her eyes filled with the tears of despondency, wretched like an osprey who has lost her young, — Gautamī abandoning all self-control wailed aloud, — she fainted, and with a weeping face exclaimed: mahormimato mdavo ’sitāḥ śubhāḥ pthakpthagmūlaruhāḥ samudgatāḥ | praceritāste bhuvi tasya mūrdhajā naredramaulīpariveṣṭanakṣamāḥ || 8.52 52. ‘Beautiful, soft, black, and all in great waves, growing each from its own special root, — those hairs of his are tossed on the ground, worthy to be encircled by a royal diadem. pralababāhurmgarājavikramo mahārṣabhākṣaḥ kanakojjvaladyutiḥ | viśālavakṣā ghanadudubhisvanastathāvidho ’pyāśramavāsamarhati || 8.53 53. ‘With his long arms and lion-gait, his bull-like eye, and his beauty bright like gold, his broad chest, and his voice deep as a drum or a cloud, should such a hero as this dwell in a hermitage? abhāginī nūnamiya vasudharā tamāryakarmāṇamanuttama prati | gatastato ’sau guṇavān hi tādśo npaḥ prajābhāgyaguṇaiḥ prasūyate || 8.54 54. ‘This earth is indeed unworthy as regards that peerless doer of noble actions, for such a virtuous hero has gone away from her, — it is the merits and virtues of the subjects which produce their king. sujātajālāvatatāgulī mdū nigūḍhagulphau viṣapuṣpakomalau | vanātabhūmi kaṭhinā katha nu tau sacakramadhyau caraṇau gamiṣyataḥ || 8.55 55. ‘Those two feet of his, tender, with their beautiful web spread between the toes, with their ankles concealed, and soft like a blue lotus, — how can they, bearing a wheel marked in the middle, walk on the hard ground of the skirts of the forest?
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 104 vimānapṣṭhe śayanāsanocita mahārhavastrāgurucadanārcitam | katha nu śītoṣṇajalāgameṣu taccharīramojasvi vane bhaviṣyati || 8.56 56. ‘That body, which deserves to sit or lie on the roof of a palace, — honoured with costly garments, aloes, and sandal-wood, — how will that manly body live in the woods, exposed to the attacks of the cold, the heat, and the rain? kulena sattvena balena varcasā śrutena lakṣmyā vayasā ca garvitaḥ | pradātumevābhyudito na yācitu katha sa bhikṣā parataścariṣyati || 8.57 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? śucau śayitvā śayane hiraṇmaye prabodhyamāno niśi tūryanisvanaiḥ | katha vata svapsyati so ’dya me vratī paṭaukadeśātarite mahītale || 8.58 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?’ ima vilāpa karuṇa niśamya tā bhujaiḥ pariṣvajya paraspara striyaḥ | vilocanebhyaḥ salilāni tatyajurmadhūni puṣpebhya iveritā latāḥ || 8.59 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. tato dharāyāmapatadyaśodharā vicakravākeva rathāgasāhvayā | śanaiśca tattadvilalāpa viklavā muhurmuhurgadgadaruddhayā girā || 8.60 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: sa māmanāthā sahadharmacāriṇīmapāsya dharma yadi kartumicchati | kuto ’sya dharmaḥ sahadharmacāriṇī vinā tapo yaḥ paribhoktumicchati || 8.61 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?
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