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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
II, 6.
Then like the dark and lowering cloud', that surrounds the disc of the sun or moon, he for a moment gazed, scanning his steps (way), then entered on the hermit's grot; 490
Kandaka following him with (wistful) eyes, his body disappeared, nor was it seen again. 'My lord and master now has left his father's house, his kinsfolk and myself (he cried), 491
He now has clothed himself in hermit's garb?, and entered the painful forest;' raising his hands he called on Heaven, o'erpowered with grief he could not move; 492
Till holding by the white steed's neck, he tottered forward on the homeward road, turning again and often looking back, his steps (body) going on, his heart back-hastening, 493
Now lost in thought and self-forgetful, now looking down to earth, then raising up his drooping (eye) to heaven, falling at times and then rising again, thus weeping as he went, he pursued his way homewards. 494
Varga 7. ENTERING THE PLACE (WOOD) OF
AUSTERITIES.
The prince having dismissed Kandaka, as he entered the Rishis' abode, his graceful body brightly
· I have supposed that he is for the time. The robe is represented as the cloud surrounding the bright person of Bodhisattva.
· He now has put on a dark-colour'd robe.
• The painful forest; that is, the forest or wood where painful mortification is practised,
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