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

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.’