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

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 18
śrutvā vacastacca manaśca yuktvā jñātvā nimittaiśca tato ’smyupetaḥ |
didkṣayā śākyakuladhvajasya śakradhvajasyeva samucchritasya || 1.63 (1.58)
63. ‘Having heard that voice and applied my mind thereto, and having known its truth
by signs, I am now come hither, with a longing to see the banner of the Śākya race, as
if it were Indra’s banner being set up.’ 1
ityetadeva vacana niśamya praharṣasabhrātagatirnaredraḥ |
ādāya dhātryakagata kumāra sadarśayāmāsa tapodhanāya || 1.64 (1.59)
64. Having heard this address of his, the king, with his steps bewildered with joy, took
the prince, who lay on his nurse’s side, and showed him to the holy ascetic.
cakrākapāda sa tathā mahārṣirjālāvanaddhāgulipāṇipādam |
sorṇabhruva vāraṇavastikośa savismaya rājasuta dadarśa || 1.65 (1.60)
65. Thus the great seer beheld the king’s son with wonder, — his foot marked with a
wheel, his fingers and toes webbed, with a circle of hair between his eyebrows, and
signs of vigour like an elephant.
dhātryakasaviṣṭamavekṣya caina devyakasaviṣṭamivāgnisūnum |
babhūva pakṣmātarivācitāśrurniśvasya caiva tridivonmukho ’bhūt || 1.66
(1.61)
66. Having beheld him seated on his nurse’s side, like the son of Agni (Skanda) seated
on Devī’s side, he stood with the tears hanging on the ends of his eyelashes, 2 and
sighing he looked up towards heaven.
dṣṭvāsita tvaśrupariplutākṣa snehāttu putrasya npaścakape |
sagadgada bāṣpakaṣāyakaṭhaḥ papraccha ca prājalirānatāgaḥ || 1.67 (1.62)
67. But seeing Asita with his eyes thus filled with tears, the king was agitated through
his love for his son, and with his hands clasped and his body bowed he thus asked him
in a broken voice choked with weeping,
1 In allusion to a festival in parts of India; cf. Schol. Raghuvasa IV, 3. (Cf. Mrs Guthrie’s Year
in an Indian Fort, vol. ii.)
2 I adopt Prof. Keilhorn’s suggestion, pakṣmāntavilabitāśruḥ. (Añjita might mean ‘curved on
the eyelashes.’)