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

A Sanskrit and English line by line (interlinear) version of one of the most important and influential biographies of the Buddha (together with extensive annotation).

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<strong>Buddha</strong>-carita, <strong>or</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong> - 84<br />

tataḥ kumāraśca sa cāśvagopastasmistathā yāti visismiyāte |<br />

āraṇyake vāsasi caiva bhūyastasminnakārṣṭā bahumānamāśu || 6.64<br />

64. <strong>The</strong>n the prince and the attendant <strong>of</strong> the h<strong>or</strong>se were filled with wonder as he was<br />

thus going, and f<strong>or</strong>thwith they paid great honour anew to that sylvan dress.<br />

chada tataḥ sāśrumukha visjya kāṣāyasavidvtakīrtibhtsaḥ |<br />

yenāśramastena yayau mahātmā sadhyābhrasavīta ivādrirājaḥ || 6.65<br />

65. <strong>The</strong>n the great-souled one, having dismissed the weeping Chada, and wearing his<br />

fame veiled <strong>by</strong> the sign <strong>of</strong> the red garment, went towards the hermitage, like the king<br />

<strong>of</strong> mountains wrapped in an evening cloud.<br />

tatastathā bhartari rājyaniḥsphe tapovana yāti vivarṇavāsasi |<br />

bhujau samutkṣipya tataḥ sa vājibhdbhśa vicukrośa papāta ca kṣitau || 6.66<br />

66. While his master, thus regardless <strong>of</strong> his kingdom, was going to the ascetic-wood in<br />

mean garments, the groom, tossing up his arms, wailed bitterly and fell on the ground.<br />

vilokya bhūyaśca ruroda sasvara haya bhujābhyāmupaguhya kathakam |<br />

tato nirāśo vilapanmuhurmuhuryayau śarīreṇa pura na cetasā || 6.67<br />

67. Having looked again he wept aloud, and embraced the h<strong>or</strong>se Kathaka with his<br />

arms; and then, hopeless and repeatedly lamenting, he went in body to the city, not in<br />

soul.<br />

kvacitpradadhyau vilalāpa ca kvacit kvacitpracaskhāla papāta ca kvacit |<br />

ato vrajan bhaktivaśena duḥkhitaścacāra bahvīravaśaḥ pathi kriyāḥ || 6.68<br />

68. Sometimes he pondered, sometimes he lamented, sometimes he stumbled, and<br />

sometimes he fell; and so going along, wretched through his devoted attachment, he<br />

perf<strong>or</strong>med all kinds <strong>of</strong> actions in the road without conscious will.<br />

iti śrībuddhacarite mahākāvye chadakanivartana nāma ṣaṣṭhaḥ sargaḥ || 6 ||<br />

[Such is the sixth chapter in the great poem Śri <strong>Buddha</strong>carita,<br />

called <strong>The</strong> Dismissal <strong>of</strong> Chadaka]

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