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

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 83
pūjābhilāṣeṇa ca bāhumānyāddivaukasasta jaghuḥ praviddham |
yathāvadena divi devasaghā divyairviśeṣairmahayā ca cakruḥ || 6.58
58. And the heavenly beings, with a longing to worship it, seized it respectfully as it
was thrown up; and the divine hosts paid it due adoration in heaven with celestial
honours.
muktvā tvalakārakalatravattā śrīvipravāsa śirasaśca ktvā |
dṣṭvāśuka kācanahasacitram vanya sa dhīro ’bhicakākṣa vāsaḥ || 6.59
59. Having thus divorced his ornaments and banished all royal magnificence from his
head, and seeing his muslin floating away like a golden goose, the stedfast prince
desired a sylvan dress.
tato mgavyādhavapurdivaukā bhāva viditvāsya viśuddhabhāvaḥ |
kāṣāyavastro ’bhiyayau samīpa ta śākyarājaprabhavo ’bhyuvāca || 6.60
60. Then a celestial being, wearing the form of a hunter, pure in heart, knowing his
thoughts, approached near him in dark-red garments; and the son of the Śākya king
thus addressed him:
śiva ca kāṣāyamṣidhvajaste na yujyate hisramida dhanuśca |
tatsaumya yadyasti na saktiratra mahya prayacchedamida ghāṇa || 6.61
61. ‘Thy red garments are auspicious, the sign of a saint; but this destructive bow is not
befitting; therefore, my good friend, if there is no strong preference in the matter, do
thou give me that dress and take this of mine.’
vyādho ’bravītkāmada kāmamārādanena viśvāsya mgān nihatya |
arthastu śakropama yadyanena hata pratīcchānaya śuklametat || 6.62
62. The hunter replied, ‘It has given me my desire, 1 O giver of desires, as by this I have
inspired animals with confidence and then killed them; but if thou hast need of it, O
thou who art like Indra, accept it at once and give me the white dress.’
pareṇa harṣeṇa tataḥ sa vanya jagrāha vāso ’śukamutsasarja |
vyādhastu divya vapureva bibhrat tacchuklamādāya diva jagāma || 6.63
63. With extreme joy he then took that sylvan dress and gave away the linen one; and
the hunter, assuming his heavenly form, having taken the white garment, went to
heaven.
1 I have taken ārāt as from ā + rā, but Professor Keilhorn suggests that it might mean ‘near’.
‘Although in this dress I make the deer come confidently close to me and then kill them, yet
take it if you want it’. [The Tibetan seems to have read kāmasārāt,—°dod·pa sñin·po las, ‘from
essence of desire’. H.W.]