The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa
A Sanskrit and English line by line (interlinear) version of one of the most important and influential biographies of the Buddha (together with extensive annotation).
A Sanskrit and English line by line (interlinear) version of one of the most important and influential biographies of the Buddha (together with extensive annotation).
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<strong>Buddha</strong>-carita, <strong>or</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong> - 124<br />
tatsnehādatha npateśca bhaktitastau sāpekṣa pratiyayatuśca tasthatuśca |<br />
durdharṣa ravimiva dīptamātmabhāsā ta draṣṭu na hi pathi śekaturna<br />
moktum || 9.71 (9.81)<br />
71. Through their love f<strong>or</strong> the prince and their devotion to the king, they returned,<br />
and <strong>of</strong>ten stopped looking back; 1 they could neither behold him on the road n<strong>or</strong> yet<br />
lose the sight <strong>of</strong> him, — shining in his own splendour and beyond the reach <strong>of</strong> all<br />
others, like the sun.<br />
tau jñātu paramagatergati tu tasya pracchannāścarapuruṣāñchucīn<br />
vidhāya |<br />
rājāna priyasutalālasa nu gatvā drakṣyāvaḥ kathamiti jagmatuḥ kathacit ||<br />
9.72 (9.82)<br />
72. Having placed faithful emissaries in disguise to find out the actions <strong>of</strong> him who<br />
was the supreme refuge <strong>of</strong> all, they went on with faltering steps, saying to each other,<br />
‘How shall we approach the king and see him, who is longing f<strong>or</strong> his dear son?’<br />
iti śrībuddhacarite mahākāvye kumārānveṣaṇo nāma navamaḥ sargaḥ || 9 ||<br />
[Such is the ninth chapter in the great poem Śri <strong>Buddha</strong>carita,<br />
called <strong>The</strong> Deputation to the Prince]<br />
1 Another reading gives ‘full <strong>of</strong> reproach’.
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