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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

An English translation of this famous life of the Buddha, one of the great pieces of Sanskrit literature, with additions to help complete the text.

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<strong>Buddha</strong>-<strong>carita</strong>, <strong>or</strong> <strong>Life</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddha</strong> - 50<br />

34. Others, with their golden zones tinkling, wandered about here and<br />

there, showing to him their hips veiled with thin cloth.<br />

35. Others leaned, holding a mango-bough in full flower, displaying<br />

their bosoms like golden jars.<br />

36. Another, coming from a lotus-bed, carrying lotuses and with eyes<br />

like lotuses, stood like the lotus-goddess Padmā, <strong>by</strong> the side <strong>of</strong> that<br />

lotus-faced prince.<br />

37. Another sang a sweet song easily understood and with the proper<br />

gesticulations, rousing him, self-subdued though he was, <strong>by</strong> her<br />

glances, as saying, ‘O how thou art deluded!’<br />

38. Another, having armed herself with her bright face, with its browbow<br />

drawn to its full, imitated his action, as playing the hero.<br />

39. Another, with beautiful full bosoms, and having her earrings<br />

waving in the wind, laughed loudly at him, as if saying, ‘Catch me,<br />

sir, if you can!’<br />

40. Some, as he was going away, bound him with strings <strong>of</strong> garlands,<br />

– others punished him with w<strong>or</strong>ds like an elephant-driver’s hook,<br />

gentle yet reproachful.<br />

41. Another, wishing to argue with him, seizing a mango-spray, asked,<br />

all bewildered with passion, ‘This flower, whose is it?’

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