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II, 8.
THE GENERAL GRIEF OF THE PALACE.
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And now this royal and kingly house, in one short morn is crushed and ruined! All these fair and queen-like women, with grief o'erwhelmed, their beauty marred, 615
'Their breathing choked with tears and sobs, their faces soiled with crossing tracks of grief! Even the queen (Maya) when in life, resting herself on him, as the great snowy mountains 616
"Repose upon the widening earth, through grief in thought of what would happen, died. How sad the lot of these—within these open lattices—these weeping ones, these deeply wailing! 617
'Born in another state than hers in heaven, how can their grief be borne!' Then speaking to the horse she said, 'Thou unjust! what dullness this—to carry off a man, 618
"As in the darkness some wicked thief bears off a precious gem. When riding thee in time of battle, swords, and javelins and arrows, 619
None of these alarmed or frighted thee! But now what fitfulness of temper this?, to carry off by violence, to rob my soul of one, the choicest jewel of his tribe. 620
"O! thou art but a vicious reptile, to do such wickedness as this ! to-day thy woeful lamentation sounds everywhere within these palace walls, 621
But when you stole away my cherished one, why wert thou dumb and silent then ! if then thy voice
* This line is obscure; it may be paraphrased thus, 'If she in bearing her son brought about her own death, but yet is now born in heaven, how shall these bear their grief, or shall this grief (of losing him) be borne by these!'
? Or, how unendurable then your present conduct l'
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |