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

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Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 85 Book VII: [Tapovanapraveśo] [Entry into the Penance Grove] tato visjyāśrumukha rudata chada vanacchadatayā nirāsthaḥ | sarvārthasiddho vapuṣābhibhūya tamāśrama siddhamiva prapede || 7.1 1. Then having left the weeping tear-faced Chada, — indifferent to all things in his longing for the forest, he by whom all objects are accomplished, overpowering the place by his beauty, entered that hermitage as if it were fully blessed. sa rājasūnurmgarājagāmī mgājira tanmgavat praviṣṭaḥ | lakṣmīviyukto ’pi śarīralakṣmyā cakṣūṣi sarvāśramiṇā jahāra || 7.2 2. He the prince with a gait like the lion’s, having entered that arena of deer, himself like a deer, — by the beauty of his person, even though bereft of his magnificence, attracted the eyes of all the dwellers in the hermitage. sthitā hi hastasthayugāstathaiva kautūhalāccakradharāḥ sadārāḥ | tamidrakalpa dadśurna jagmurdhuryā ivārdhāvanataiḥ śirobhiḥ || 7.3 3. The drivers of wheeled carriages also, with their wives, stood still in curiosity, holding the yokes in their hands, — they gazed on him who was like Indra, and moved not, standing like their beasts of burden with their heads half bent down. viprāśca gatvā bahiridhmahetoḥ prāptāḥ samitpuṣpapavitrahastāḥ | tapaḥpradhānāḥ ktabuddhayo ’pi ta draṣṭumīyurna maṭhānabhīyuḥ || 7.4 4. And the Brāhmans who had gone outside for the sake of fuel, having come with their hands full of fuel, flowers, and kusa grass, — pre-eminent as they were in penances, and proficients in wisdom, went to see him, and went not to their cells. hṣṭāśca kekā mumucurmayūrā dṣṭvābuda nīlamivonnamatam | śaṣpāṇi hitvābhimukhāśca tasthurmgāścalākṣā mgacāriṇaśca || 7.5 5. Delighted the peacocks uttered their cries, as if they had seen a dark-blue cloud rising up; and leaving the young grass and coming forward, the deer with restless eyes and the ascetics who grazed like deer 1 stood still. dṣṭvā tamikṣvākukulapradīpa jvalatamudyatamivāśumatam | kte ’pi dohe janitapramodāḥ prasusruvurhomaduhaśca gāvaḥ || 7.6 6. Beholding him, the lamp of the race of Ikṣvāku, shining like the rising sun, — even though their milking was over, being filled with joy, the oblation-giving cows poured forth their milk. 1 A form of ascetic observance, see Mahābh. I, 3644; V, 4072. Cf. infra, śloka (verse) 15.
Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 86 kaścidvasūnāmayamaṣṭamaḥ syātsyādaśvinoranyataraścyuto ’tra | ucceruruccairiti tatra vācastaddarśanādvismayajā munīnām || 7.7 7. ‘It is one of the eight Vasus or one of the two Aśvins, descended here,’ — these words arose, uttered aloud by the sages in their astonishment at seeing him. lekharṣabhasyeva vapurdvitīya dhāmeva lokasya carācarasya | sa dyotayāmāsa vana hi ktsna yadcchayā sūrya ivāvatīrṇaḥ || 7.8 8. Like a second form of the lord of the gods, 1 like the personified glory of the universe, he lighted up the entire wood like the sun come down of his own accord. tataḥ sa tairāśramibhiryathāvadabhyarcitaścopanimatritaśca | pratyarcayā dharmabhto babhūva svareṇa bhādrābudharopamena || 7.9 9. Then he, being duly honoured and invited to enter by those dwellers in the hermitage, paid his homage to the saints, with a voice like a cloud in the rainy season. 2 kīrṇa tataḥ puṇyaktā janena svargābhikāmena vimokṣakāmaḥ | tamāśrama so ’nucacāra dhīrastapāsi citrāṇi nirīkṣamāṇaḥ || 7.10 10. He, the wise one, longing for liberation, traversed that hermitage filled with the holy company desirous of heaven, — gazing at their strange penances. tapovikārāśca nirīkṣya saumyastapovane tatra tapodhanānām | tapasvina kacidanuvrajata tattva vijijñāsurida babhāṣe || 7.11 11. He, the gentle one, having seen the different kinds of penance practised by the ascetics in that sacred grove, — desiring to know the truth, thus addressed one of the ascetics who was following him: tatpūrvamadyāśramadarśana me yasmādima dharmavidhi na jāne | tasmādbhavānarhati bhāṣitu me yo niścayo ya prati vaḥ pravttaḥ || 7.12 12. ‘Since this to-day is my first sight of a hermitage I do not understand this rule of penance; therefore will your honour kindly explain to me what resolve possesses each one of you.’ tato dvijātiḥ sa tapovihāraḥ śākyarṣabhāyarṣabhavikramāya | kramena tasmai kathayācakāra tapoviśeṣa tapasaḥ phala ca || 7.13 13. Then the Brāhman well-versed in penance told in order to that bull of the Śākyas, a very bull in prowess, all the various kinds of penance and the fruit thereof. 1 Lekharṣabha is a rare name of Indra. 2 A conjectural reading.
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