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

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 9 bhujena yasyābhihatāḥ patato dviṣaddvipedrāḥ samarāgaṇeṣu | udvātamuktāprakaraiḥ śirobhirbhaktyeva puṣpājalibhiḥ praṇemuḥ || 1.11* 11. Falling smitten by his arm in the arena of battle, the lordly elephants of his enemies bowed prostrate with their heads pouring forth quantities of pearls as if they were offering handfuls of flowers in homage. atipratāpādavadhūya śatrūnmahoparāgāniva tigmabhānuḥ | udyotayāmāsa jana samatātpradarśayannāśrayaṇīyamārgān || 1.12* 12. Having dispersed his enemies by his preeminent majesty as the sun disperses the gloom of an eclipse, he illuminated his people on every side, showing them the paths which they were to follow. dharmārthakāmā viṣaya mitho ’nya na veśamācakramurasya nītyā | vispardhamānā iva tūgrasiddheḥ sugocare dīptatarā babhūvuḥ || 1.13* 13. Duty, wealth, and pleasure under his guidance assumed mutually each other’s object, but not the outward dress; yet as if they still vied together they shone all the brighter in the glorious career of their triumphant success. udārasakhyaiḥ sacivāirasakhyaiḥ ktāgrabhāvaḥ sa udagrabhāvaḥ | śaśī yathā bhairaktānyathābhaiḥ śakyedrarājaḥ sutarā rarāja || 1.14* 14. He, the monarch of the Śākyas, of native pre-eminence, but whose actual preeminence was brought about by his numberless councillors of exalted wisdom, shone forth all the more gloriously, like the moon amidst the stars shining with a light like its own. 1 tasyātiśobhāvistātiśobhā raviprabhevāstatamaḥ prabhāvā | samagradevīnivahāgradevī babhūva māyāpagateva māyā || 1.15* 15. To him there was a queen, named Māyā, as if free from all deceit (māyā) — an effulgence proceeding from his effulgence, like the splendour of the sun when it is free from all the influence of darkness, a chief queen in the united assembly of all queens. prajāsu māteva hitapravttā gurau jane bhaktirivānuvttā | lakṣmīrivādhīśakule ktābhā jagatyabhūduttamadevatā yā || 1.16* 16. Like a mother to her subjects, intent on their welfare, — devoted to all worthy of reverence like devotion itself, — shining on her lord’s family like the goddess of prosperity, — she was the most eminent of goddesses to the whole world. 1 Or perhaps ‘shining with its light undimmed by the stars.’
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 10 kāma sadā strīcarita tamisra tathāpi tā prapya bhśa vireje | na hīdulekhāmupagamya śubhā nakta tathā satamasatvameti || 1.17* 17. Verily the life of women is always darkness, yet when it encountered her, it shone brilliantly; thus the night does not retain its gloom, when it meets with the radiant crescent of the moon. atīdriyenātmani duṣkuho ’ya mayā jano yojayitu na śakyaḥ | itīva sūkṣmā prakti vihāya dharmeṇa sākṣādvihitā svamūrtiḥ || 1.18* 18. ‘This people, being hard to be roused to wonder in their souls, cannot be influenced by me if I come to them as beyond their senses,’ - so saying, Duty abandoned her own subtile nature and made her form visible. cyuto ’tha kāyāttuṣitāt trilokīmudyotayannuttamabodhisattvaḥ | viveśa tasyāḥ smta eva kukṣau nadāguhāyāmiva nāgarājaḥ || 1.19* 19. Then falling from the host of beings in the Tuṣita heaven, 1 and illumining the three worlds, the most excellent of Bodhisattvas suddenly entered at a thought into her womb, like the Nāga-king entering the cave of Nandā. dhtvā himādridhavala guru ṣaḍviṣāṇā dānādhivāsitamukha dviradasya rūpam | śuddhodanasya vasudhādhipatermahiṣyāḥ kukṣi viveśa sa jagadvyasanakṣayāya || 1.20* 20. Assuming the form of a huge elephant white like Himālaya, armed with six tusks, with his face perfumed with flowing ichor, he entered the womb of the queen of king Śuddhodana, to destroy the evils of the world. rakṣāvidhāna prati lokapālā lokaikanāthasya divo ’bhijagmuḥ | sarvatra bhāto ’pi hi cadrapādā bhajati kailāsagirau viśeṣam || 1.21* 21. The guardians of the world hastened from heaven to mount watch over the world’s one true ruler; thus the moonbeams, though they shine everywhere, are especially bright on Mount Kailāsa. mayāpi ta kukṣigata dadhānā vidyudvilāsa jaladāvalīva | dānābhivarṣaiḥ parito janānā dāridryatāpa śamayācakāra || 1.22* 22. Māyā also, holding him in her womb, like a line of clouds holding a lightningflash, relieved the people around her from the sufferings of poverty by raining showers of gifts. 1 For tuṣitāt kāyāt, cf. tuṣite devanikāya apapannā, Divyāvad. p. 82; and tuṣitakāyika, Lalitav. ṣaḍdanta.
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