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

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 21
tṣṇārgala mohatamaḥkapāṭa dvāra prajānāmapayānahetoḥ |
vipāṭayiṣyatyayamuttamena saddharmatāḍena durāsadena || 1.79 (1.74)
79. ‘He will break open for the escape of living beings that door whose bolt is desire
and whose two leaves are ignorance and delusion, — with that excellent blow of the
good Law which is so hard to find.
svairmohapāśaiḥ pariveṣṭitasya duḥkhābhibhūtasya nirāśrayasya |
lokasya sabudhya ca dharmarājaḥ kariṣyate badhanamokṣameṣaḥ || 1.80 (1.75)
80. ‘He, the king of the Law, when he has attained to supreme knowledge, will achieve
the deliverance from its bonds of the world now overcome by misery, destitute of
every refuge, and enveloped in its own chains of delusion.
tanmā kthāḥ śokamima prati tvam tatsaumya śocye hi manuṣyaloke |
mohena vā kāmasukhairmadādvā yo naiṣṭhika śroṣyati nāsya dharmam || 1.81
(1.76)
81. ‘Therefore make no sorrow for him, — that belongs rather, kind sire, to the
pitiable world of human beings, who through illusion or the pleasures of desire or
intoxication refuse to hear his perfect Law.
bhraṣṭasya tasmācca guṇādato me dhyānāni labdhvāpyaktārthataiva |
dharmasya tasyāśravaṇādaha hi manye vipatti tridive ’pi vāsam || 1.82 (1.77)
82. ‘Therefore since I have fallen short of that excellence, though I have accomplished
all the stages of contemplation, my life is only a failure; since I have not heard his
Law, I count even dwelling in the highest heaven a misfortune.’
iti śrutārthaḥ sasuhtsadārastyaktvā viṣāda mumude naredraḥ |
evavidho ’ya tanayo mameti mene sa hi svāmapi sāramattām || 1.83 (1.78)
83. Having heard these words, the king with his queen and his friends abandoned
sorrow and rejoiced; thinking, ‘such is this son of mine,’ he considered that his
excellence was his own.
āryeṇa mārgeṇa tu yāsyatīti citāvidheya hdaya cakāra |
na khalvasau na priyadharmapakṣaḥ satānanāśāttu bhaya dadarśa || 1.84
(1.79)
84. But he let his heart be influenced by the thought, ‘he will travel by the noble path,’
— he was not in truth averse to religion, yet still he saw alarm at the prospect of
losing his child.