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

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 107 tato muhūrta sutaśokamohito janena tulyābhijanena dhāritaḥ | nirīkṣya dṣṭyā jalapūrṇayā haya mahītalastho vilalāpa pārthivaḥ || 8.74 74. Then the king, distracted by his grief for his son, being held up for a moment by his attendants all of the same race, gazed on the horse with his eyes filled with tears, and then falling on the ground wailed aloud: bahūni ktvā samare priyāṇi me mahattvayā kathaka vipriya ktam | guṇapriyo yena vane sa me priyaḥ priyo ’pi sannapriyavat praceritaḥ || 8.75 75. ‘After having done many dear exploits for me in battle, one great deed of cruelty, O Kathaka, 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. tadadya mā vā naya tatra yatra sa vraja druta vā punarenamānaya | te hi tasmānmama nāsti jīvita vigāḍharogasya sadauṣadhādiva || 8.76 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. suvarṇaniṣṭhīvini mtyunā hte suduṣkara yanna mamāra sjayaḥ | aha punardharmaratau sute gate ’mumukṣurātmānamanātmavāniva || 8.77 77. ‘When Suvarṇaniṣṭhīvin was carried away by death, it seemed impossible that Sjaya 1 should not die; and shall I, when my duty-loving son is gone, fear to set my soul free, like any coward? vibhordaśakṣatraktaḥ prajāpateḥ parāparajñasya vivasvadātmanaḥ | priyeṇa putreṇa satā vinākta katha na muhyeddhi mano manorapi || 8.78 78. ‘How should not the mind of Manu himself be distracted, when parted from his dear virtuous son, 2 — (Manu) the son of Vivasvat, who knew the higher and the lower, the mighty lord of creatures, the institutor of the ten chieftains. 3 ajasya rājñastanayāya dhīmate narādhipāyedrasakhāya me sphā | gate vana yastanaye diva gato na moghavāṣpaḥ kpaṇa jijīva ha || 8.79 79. ‘I envy the monarch, that friend of Indra, the wise son of king Aja, 4 who, when his son went into the forest, went himself to heaven, and dragged out no miserable life here with vain tears. 1 See Mahābh XII, 31. The MSS. read Sajaya for Sjaya. 2 Does this refer to his loosing his son Sudyumna, who was changed to a woman, Viṣṇu Pur, IV, I? 3 Daśakṣatrakt is an obscure phrase; [The Tibetan renders it by rgyal·rigs bcu byas, ‘king-race ten made’; rgyal·rigs is the ordinary translation of kṣatriya H.W.] 4 Daśaratha.

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 108 pracakṣva me bhadra tadāśramājira htastvayā yatra sa me jalājaliḥ | ime parīpsati hi te pipāsavo mamāsavaḥ pretagati yiyāsavaḥ || 8.80 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.’ iti tanayaviyogajātaduḥkha kṣitisadśa sahaja vihāya dhairyam | daśaratha iva rāmaśokavaśyo bahu vilalāpa npo visajñakalpaḥ || 8.81 81. Thus the king, in his grief for his separation from his son, — losing all his innate firmness which was stedfast like the earth, — loudly lamented as one distraught, like Daśaratha, a prey to his sorrow for Rāma. śrutavinayaguṇānvitastatasta matisacivaḥ pravayāḥ purohitaśca | avadhtamidamūcaturyathāvanna ca paritaptamukhau na cāpyaśokau || 8.82 82. Then the wise counsellor, endued with religious learning, courtesy, and virtue, and the old family priest, spoke to him as was befitting in these well-weighed words, neither with their faces overwhelmed by grief nor yet wholly unmoved: tyaja naravara śokamehi dhairya kudhtirivārhasi dhīra nāśru moktum | srajamiva mditāmapāsya lakṣmī bhuvi bahavo hi npā vanānyatīyuḥ || 8.83 83. ‘Cease, O noblest of men, thy grief, regain thy firmness, — surely thou wilt not, O firm hero, shed tears like one of no self-control; many kings on this earth have gone into the forests, throwing away their royal pomp like a crushed wreath. api ca niyata eṣa tasya bhāvaḥ smara vacana tadṣeḥ purāsitasya | na hi sa divi na cakravartirājye kṣaṇamapi vāsayitu sukhena śakyaḥ || 8.84 84. ‘Moreover, this his state of mind was all predetermined; remember those words long ago of the holy sage Asita; "He will never be made to dwell even for a moment contentedly in heaven or in an emperor’s domain." yadi tu nvara kārya eva yatnastvaritamudāhara yāvadatra yāvaḥ | bahuvidhamiha yuddhamastu tāvattava tanayasya vidheśca tasya tasya || 8.85 85. ‘But if, O best of men, the effort must be made, quickly speak the word, we two will at once go together; let the battle be waged in every way with thy son and his fate whatever it be.’ narapatiratha tau śaśāsa tasmāddrutamita eva yuvāmabhiprayātam | na hi mama hdaya prayāti śāti vanaśakuneriva putralālasasya || 8.86 86. Then the king commanded them both, ‘Do you both go quickly hence, — my heart will not return to quiet, any more than a bird’s in the woods longing for its young.’

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