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

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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.
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 22 atha munirasito nivedya tattva sutaniyata sutaviklavāya rājñe | sabahumatamudīkṣyamāṇarūpaḥ pavanapathena yathāgata jagāma || 1.85 (1.80) 85. Then the sage Asita, having made known the real fate which awaited the prince to the king who was thus disturbed about his son, departed by the way of the wind as he had come, his figure watched reverentially in his flight. ktamatiranujāsuta ca dṣṭvā munivacanaśravaṇe pi tanmatau ca | bahuvidhamanukapayā sa sādhuḥ priyasutavadviniyojayācakāra || 1.86 (1.81) 86. Having taken his resolution and having seen the son of his younger sister, 1 the saint, filled with compassion, enjoined him earnestly in all kinds of ways, as if he were his son, to listen to the sage’s words and ponder over them. narapatirapi putrajanmatuṣṭo viṣayamatāni vimucya badhanāni | kulasadśamacīkaradyathāvatpriyatanaya tanayasya jātakarma || 1.87 (1.82) 87. The monarch also, being well-pleased at the birth of a son, having thrown off all those bonds called worldly objects, caused his son to go through the usual birthceremonies in a manner worthy of the family. daśasu pariṇateṣvahaḥsu caiva prayatamanāḥ parayā mudā parītaḥ | akuruta japahomamagalādyāḥ paramatamāḥ sa sutasya devatejyāḥ || 1.88 (1.83) 88. When ten days were fulfilled after his son’s birth, with his thoughts kept under restraint, and filled with excessive joy, he offered for his son most elaborate sacrifices to the gods with muttered prayers, oblations, and all kinds of auspicious ceremonies. api ca śatasahasrapūrṇasakhyāḥ sthirabalavattanayāḥ sahemaśgīḥ | anupagatajarāḥ payasvinīrgāḥ svayamadadātsutavddhaye dvijebhyaḥ || 1.89 (1.84) 89. And he himself gave to the Brāhmans for his son’s welfare cows full of milk, with no traces of infirmity, golden-horned and with strong healthy calves, to the full number of a hundred thousand. bahuvidhaviṣayāstato yatātmā svahdayatoṣakarīḥ kriyā vidhāya | guṇavati divase śive muhūrte matimakaronmuditaḥ purapraveśe || 1.90 (1.85) 90. Then he, with his soul under strict restraint, having performed all kinds of ceremonies which rejoiced his heart, on a fortunate day, in an auspicious moment, gladly determined to enter his city. 1 This was Naradatta, see Lalitavistara, ch. vii. pp. 103, 110 (Foucaux).
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