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

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 164
Book XIII: [Māravijayo]
[Defeat of Māra]
tasminśca bodhāya ktapratijñe rājarṣivaśaprabhave mahārṣau |
tatropaviṣṭe prajaharṣa lokastatrāsa saddharmaripustu māraḥ || 13.1
1. When the great sage, sprung from a line of royal sages, sat down there with his soul
fully resolved to obtain the highest knowledge, the whole world rejoiced; but Māra,
the enemy of the good law, was afraid.
ya kāmadeva pravadati loke citrāyudha puṣpaśara tathaiva |
kāmapracārādhipati tameva mokṣadviṣa māramudāharati || 13.2
2. He whom they call in the world Kāmadeva, the owner of the various weapons, the
flower-arrowed, the lord of the course of desire, — it is he whom they also style Māra
the enemy of liberation.
tasyātmajā vibhramaharṣadarpāstisro ratiprītitṣaśca kanyāḥ |
papracchurena manaso vikāra sa tāśca tāścaiva vaco babhāṣe || 13.3
3. His three sons, Confusion, Gaiety, and Pride, and his three daughters, Lust, Delight,
and Thirst, 1 asked of him the reason of his despondency, and he thus made answer
unto them:
asau munirniścayavarma bibhrat sattvāyudha buddhiśara vikṣya |
jigīṣurāste viṣayānmadīyān tasmādaya me manaso viṣādaḥ || 13.4
4. ‘This sage, wearing the armour of resolution, and having drawn the arrow of
wisdom with the barb of truth, sits yonder intending to conquer my realms, — hence is
this despondency of my mind.
yadi hyasau māmabhibhūya yāti lokāya cākhyātyapavargamārgam |
śūnyastato ’ya viṣayo mamādya vttāccyutasyeva videhabhartuḥ || 13.5
5. ‘If he succeeds in overcoming me and proclaims to the world the path of final bliss,
all this my realm will to-day become empty, as did that of the disembodied lord when
he violated the rules of his station. 2
1 For these cf. also ver. 14, and XV, 13.
2 This probably refers to the legend of Nimi-videha, see Viṣṇu Pur. IV, 5; it might be ‘the king
of the Videhas’. There may be also a secondary allusion to the legend of Anaga and Śiva.