The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

among the rose apples, to the forest caves, to the riversides, and there lamenting she
said thus: Ime te jaMbUkA rukkhA devisA sinduvArikA vividhAni rukkhajAtAni te kumara
na dissare : Here are all these different trees, the rose apples and veidas and
sinduvAras, where children used to play with, but I cannot see them today. Ime tiThanti
ArAmA : Here in this garden, there is the river with cool water where they used to play.
But today I cannot see my children. VividhAni pupphajAtAni asmiM uparipabbate yAnassu
pubbe dhAriMsu tekumArA na disare : Here are different flowers growing up on the hill,
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which they used wear but today I cannot see my children. VividhAni phalajAtAni : these
different fruits, figs and bread fruits, banyan and kapitthanas, but I cannot see my
children. Ime no hatthikA assA : Here are the elephant and horse toys and these oxen of
theirs with which they used to play, but today I cannot see my children. Ime sAma
sasolUkA bahukA kadalImigA yehi’ssu pubbe kILiMsu, te kummArA na dissare : Here are
the dark hares, and owls, and lots of antelopes with which they used to play, but today I
cannot see my children.
Ime haMsA ca koGcAca : Here are the swans and herons, and the peacocks with
their various coloured feathers which they used to play with, but today I cannot see my
children. SA assam pade piye putte aditvA : When she could not see her beloved children
in the hermitage, she went out into the deep forest and looked for them here and there
so, she said thus: ImA tA vanagumbAyo pupphitA sabbakAlikA yatthassu pubbe kiLiMsu te
kumara na dissare : Here are the thickets which are always flowering, where they used
to play but today I cannot see my children. ImA tA pokkharaBI rammA : Here are the
lovely lotus lakes covered with mandAlaka, lotus and palaka plants, with the cries of the
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ruddy geese, where they used to play, but today I cannot see my children.” As she was
looking for her children everywhere again and again, but could not see them, she
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