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

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 78
tasmādadyaiva me śreyaścetavyamiti niścayaḥ |
jīvite ko hi viśrabho mtyau pratyarthini sthite || 6.22
22. “Therefore my determination is, ‘I must seek my supreme good this very day;’
what confidence can there be in life, when death stands as our adversary?"
evamādi tvayā saumya vijñāpyo vasudhādhipaḥ |
prayatethāstathā caiva yathā mā na smaredapi || 6.23
23. ‘Do thou address the king, O friend, with these and such-like words; and do thou
use thy efforts so that he may not even remember me.
api nairguṇyamasmāka vācya narapatau tvayā |
nairguṇyāttyajyate snehaḥ snehatyāgānna śocyate || 6.24
24. ‘Yea, do thou repeat to the king our utter unworthiness; through unworthiness
affection is lost, — and where affection is lost, there is no sorrow.’
iti vākyamida śrutvā chadaḥ satāpaviklavaḥ |
vāṣpagrathitayā vācā pratyuvāca ktājaliḥ || 6.25
25. Having heard these words, Chada, overwhelmed with grief, made reply with
folded hands, his voice choked by tears :
anena tava bhāvena bādhavāyāsadāyinā |
bhartaḥ sīdati me ceto nadīpaka iva dvipaḥ || 6.26
26. ‘At this state of mind of thine, causing affliction to thy kindred, my mind, O my
lord, sinks down like an elephant in the mud of a river.
kasya notpādayedvāṣpa niścayaste ’yamīdśaḥ |
ayomaye ’pi hdaye ki punaḥ snehaviklave || 6.27
27. ‘To whom would not such a determination as this of thine cause tears, even if his
heart were of iron, — how much more if it were throbbing with love?
vimānaśayanārha hi saukumāryamida kva ca |
kharadarbhākuravatī tapovanamahī kva ca || 6.28
28. ‘Where 1 is this delicacy of limb, fit to lie only in a palace, — and where is the
ground of the ascetic forest, covered with the shoots of rough kusa grass?
1 A common expression (which occurs also in Persian poetry) to imply the incompatibility of
two things.