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

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 57 nitya yadyapi hi strīṇāmetadeva vapurbhavet | sasavitkasya kāmeṣu tathāpi na ratiḥ kṣamā || 4.87 87. ‘Yet even though this beauty of women were to remain perpetual, still delight in the pleasures of desire would not be worthy of the wise man. yadā tu jarayā pīta rūpamāsā bhaviṣyati | ātmano ’pyanabhipreta mohāttatra ratirbhavet || 4.88 88. ‘But since their beauty will be drunk up by old age, to delight therein through infatuation cannot be a thing approved even by thyself. 1 mtyuvyādhijarādharmo mtyuvyādhijarātmabhiḥ | ramamāṇo ’pyasavignaḥ samāno mgapakṣibhiḥ || 4.89 89. ‘He who himself subject to death, disease, and old age, can sport undisturbed with those whose very nature implies death, disease, and old age, such a man is on a level with birds and beasts. yadapyāttha mahātmānaste ’pi kāmātmakā iti | savego ’tra na kartavyo yadā teṣāmapi kṣayaḥ || 4.90 90. ‘And as for what thou sayest as to even those great men having become victims to desire, do not be bewildered by them, for destruction was also their lot. māhātmya na ca tanmanye yatra sāmānyataḥ kṣayaḥ | viṣayeṣu prasaktirvā yuktirvā nātmavattayā || 4.91 91. ‘Real greatness is not to be found there, where there is universally destruction, or where there is attachment to earthly objects, or a want of self-control. yadapyātthāntenāpi strījane vartyatāmiti | anta nāvagacchāmi dākṣiṇyenāpi kicana || 4.92 92. ‘And when thou sayest, "Let one deal with women even by guile," I know nought about guile, even if it be accompanied with courtesy. na cānuvartana tanme rucita yatra nārjavam | sarvabhāvena saparko yadi nāsti dhigastu tat || 4.93 93. ‘That compliance too with a woman’s wishes pleases me not, if truthfulness be not there; if there be not a union with one’s whole soul and nature, then "out upon it" say I. 1 Or ‘even by the soul’.
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 58 ante śraddadhānasya saktasyādoṣadarśinaḥ | ki hi vacayitavya syājjātarāgasya cetasaḥ || 4.94 94. ‘A soul overpowered by passion, believing in falsehood, carried away by attachment and blind to the faults of its objects, — what is there in it worth being deceived? vacayati ca yadyeva jātarāgāḥ parasparam | nanu naiva kṣama draṣṭu narāḥ strīṇā nṇām striyaḥ || 4.95 95. ‘And if the victims of passion do deceive one another, — are not men unfit for women to look at and women for men? tadeva sati duḥkhārtta jarāmaraṇabhoginam | na mā kāmeṣvanāryeṣu pratārayitumarhasi || 4.96 96. Since then these things are so, thou surely wouldest not lead me astray into ignoble pleasures, — me afflicted by sorrow, and subject to old age and death? aho ’tidhīra balavacca te manaścaleṣu kāmeṣu ca sāradarśinaḥ | bhaye ’pi tīvre viṣayeṣu sajjase nirīkṣamāṇo maraṇādhvani prajāḥ || 4.97 97. ‘Ah! thy mind must be very firm and strong, if thou canst find substance in the transitory pleasures of sense; even in the midst of violent alarm thou canst cling to worldly objects, when thou seest all created beings in the road of death. aha punarbhīruratīvaviklavo jarāvipadvyādhibhaya vicitayan | labhe na śāti na dhti kuto rati niśāmayan dīptamivāgninā jagat || 4.98 98. ‘But I am fearful and exceedingly bewildered, as I ponder the terrors of old age, death, and disease; I can find no peace, no self-command, much less can I find pleasure, while I see the world as it were ablaze with fire. asaśaya mtyuriti prajānato narasya rāgo hdi yasya jāyate | ayomayī tasya paraimi cetanā mahābhaye rakṣati yo na roditi || 4.99 99. ‘If desire arises in the heart of the man, who knows that death is certain, — I think that his soul must be made of iron, who restrains it in this great terror and does not weep.’ athau kumāraśca viniścayātmikā cakāra kāmāśrayaghātinī kathām | janasya cakṣurgamanīyamaḍalo mahīdhara cāstamiyāya bhāskaraḥ || 4.100 100. Then the prince uttered a discourse full of resolve and abolishing the objects of desire; and the lord of day, whose orb is the worthy centre of human eyes, departed to the Western Mountain.
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