The Tham Vessantara-jAtaka - Khamkoo

like this, continually asking her to be conscious again with tears on his face. “Oh! I am
alone, sorrowful indeed,” spoke he. Though the Great Being was sorrowful indeed, he
could calm himself down with awareness and, sitting there, spoke, “My special lovely
MaddI dies as she does not want to stay but I have to make sure that she is dead.”
Thinking thus, the Great Being put his right hand on her breath. Then he felt the warmth
of her heart. He got a pot of water and splashed it on her face and watched her. When
the Great Being splashed water on her face, she regained her consciousness due to the
power of merit of his meditation which he had been practicing about seven months in
the forest as ascetic without touching MaddI once.
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PaTi pi kho thokaM kAlaM vitinametvA dAraka kuhiM gatA : After a little while
MaddI regained consciousness and rose, and modestly she asking him thus: “Lord,
where have the children gone? I have not seen them.” MahAsato pi : The Great Being
replied thus: “My lady, MaddI, I have given them to an old Brahmin as slaves and he
has led them off”.
TamatthaM pakAsento satthA Aha : In order to explain about MaddI who was
looking for children in the great forest to the listeners, the Teacher spoke thus: Tayyajja
pattaM rAjaputtiM udakenA bhisiGcitha assatthanan viditvAna athanaM eta dabravi :
“When the princess had fallen near him, he sprinkled water on her face with his hand
touching her breasts, then she regained consciousness and asked “ Lord, where have you
kept the children, I have not seen them anywhere in the hermitage.” Atha : At that time,
the Great Being replied her thus: “My lady, when you were away, an old Brahmin came
and I have given them to him as slaves in his house”. Then, the Lady asked, “When I
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asked you, why have you kept silent and let me wander around weeping all night?”
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