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> - 161<br />
svasthaprasannamanasaḥ samādhirupapadyate |<br />
samādhiyuktacittasya dhyānayogaḥ pravartate || 12.102 (12.105)<br />
102. ‘True meditation is produced in him whose mind is self-possessed and at rest, —<br />
to him whose thoughts are engaged in meditation the exercise <strong>of</strong> perfect<br />
contemplation begins at once.<br />
dhyānapravartanāddharmāḥ prāpyate yairavāpyate |<br />
durlabha śātamajara para tadamta padam || 12.103 (12.106)<br />
103. ‘By contemplation are obtained those conditions 1 through which is eventually<br />
gained that supreme calm, undecaying, imm<strong>or</strong>tal state, which is so hard to be reached.’<br />
tasmādāhāramūlo ’yamupāya itiniścayaḥ |<br />
asūrikaraṇe dhīraḥ ktvāmitamatirmatim || 12.104 (12.107)<br />
104. Having thus resolved, ‘this means is based upon eating food,’ the wise seer <strong>of</strong><br />
unbounded wisdom, having made up his mind to accept the continuance <strong>of</strong> life,<br />
snāto nairajanātīrāduttatāra śanaiḥ kśaḥ |<br />
bhaktyāvanataśākhāgrairdattahastastaṭadrumaiḥ || 12.105 (12.108)<br />
105. And having bathed, thin as he was, slowly came up the bank <strong>of</strong> the Nairañjanā,<br />
supp<strong>or</strong>ted as <strong>by</strong> a hand <strong>by</strong> the trees on the sh<strong>or</strong>e, which bent down the ends <strong>of</strong> their<br />
branches in ad<strong>or</strong>ation.<br />
atha gopādhipasutā daivatairabhicoditā |<br />
udbhūtahdayānadā tatra nadabalāgamat || 12.106 (12.109)<br />
106. Now at that time Nandabalā, the daughter <strong>of</strong> the leader <strong>of</strong> the herdsmen, impelled<br />
<strong>by</strong> the gods, with a sudden joy risen in her heart, had just come near,<br />
sitaśakhojjvalabhujā nīlakabalavāsinī |<br />
sapheṇamālānīlāburyamuneva saridvarā || 12.107 (12.110)<br />
107. Her arm gay with a white shell, and wearing a dark blue woollen cloth, like the<br />
river Yamunā, with its dark blue water and its wreath <strong>of</strong> foam.<br />
sā śraddhāvardhitaprītirvikasallocanotpalā |<br />
śirasā praṇipatyaina grāhayāmāsa pāyasam || 12.108 (12.111)<br />
108. She, having her joy increased <strong>by</strong> her faith, with her lotus-like eyes opened wide,<br />
bowed down bef<strong>or</strong>e him and persuaded him to take some milk.<br />
ktvā tadupabhogena prāptajanmaphalā sa tām |<br />
bodhiprāptau samartho ’bhūtsatarpitaṣaḍidriyaḥ || 12.109 (12.112)<br />
1 Dharmāḥ.
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