The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

EvaM putte : When the children, JAli and KaBhA, were crying piteously, the
Great Being said nothing but sat sadly with eyes full of tears on his face outside the
hermitage looking at the children crying. Tato : then the boy, grieving for his parents,
spoke thus: Na me idaM tathA dukkhaM labbhA hi pumunA idam yanca ammaM na
passAmi taM me dukkhataraM ito : “This is not so unbearable, for a man can tolerate it,
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but that I am not going to see my mother again, that is much more painful. This is not so
unbearable, for a man can tolerate it, but that I am not going to see my father again, that
is much more hurting. SA nuna kapaBA ammA : My poor mother will cry for along time
when she cannot see her daughter, the beautiful KaBhA. So nUna kapaBo tAto : My poor
father will cry for a long time when he cannot see his daughter, the beautiful KaBhA. SA
nUna kapaBA ammA : My poor mother will cry for a long time, until midnight through
dawn in the hermitage, and her tears will run dry like a river, when she is not able to see
her beautiful daughter, KaBhA. So nUna kapaBo tato : My poor mother will cry for a
long time, until midnight through dawn, in the hermitage and his tears will run dry like
a river when he cannot see his beautiful daughter. Ime te jambukA rukkhA vedisA
sindhuvAritA vividhAni kaBhe : All these different trees, these rose-apples and vedisas
and sinduvAras. Today, we go away from these following the Brahmin. AssatthA : All
these different fruits, these figs and bread-fruits, banyans and kapitthanas. Today we go
away from all of these, following the Brahmin. Ime tiThanti arAmA : There are gardens
which the king of gods made, and a river with cool water where we used to bathe.
Today we go away from all of these, following the Brahmin. VividhA ni pupphajAtAni :
All these kinds of flowers growing up on the mountain, that we used to wear, today we
go away from all these. VividhA ni phalajAtAni : All these kinds of fruits growing up on
the mountain that we used to eat, today, we go away from all these. Ime no hatthikA
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