blon po rab gtum gyis skyes bu (187b1) gźan źig slar log nas
gźon nu gser mdog groṅ khyer nas phyuṅ ṅo źes smras pa daṅ |
de thos nas yid śin tu dga’ bar gyur to ||
de nas groṅ khyer pa rnams kyi pho ña des de thos nas re thag chad par gyur to ||
de soṅ nas groṅ khyer ba de rnams la rnam pa de dag rgya cher (2) smras so ||
de thos pa daṅ groṅ khyer pa rnams kyaṅ re thag bcad ciṅ
śin tu yi mug pas phan tshun smra ba |
śes ldan dag rtsod pa’i rgyal po ’dis pha chos daṅ ldan pa chos kyi rgyal po de lta bu bsad nas
da ni ’di lta bu’i yon tan daṅ ldan par grags pa | skye bo maṅ po’i (3) yid du ’oṅ ba khyad par can gyi skyes bu ñes pa med pa gnod pa mi byed pa ’di lta bu gsod pa ni |
e ma’o sñiṅ rje med pa | ae ma’o yon tan mi śes pa |
e ma’o khyad par mi śes pa’o || blon po rnams kyaṅ gaṅ ’di lta bu’i gzugs phun sum tshogs pa rgya chen po daṅ ldan (4) pa ni mchod par ’os pa yin na | ’di lta bu’i yon tan daṅ ldan pa’i skyes bu khyad par can ci’i phyir ma brtags par gsod ciṅ yoṅs su spoṅ bar byed |
yaṅ na dus ’di lta bu ñe bar gnas pa yin te | gaṅ dam pa ma yin pa rnams ni ’a phel bar ’gyur la |
yon tan (5) ’di lta bu daṅ ldan pa’i skye po daṅ bral bar ’gyur ba
dus ’gribs pa’i ñes pa’i bdag ñid byuṅ pa yin no || ded dpon ñi ma la rnam pa ’di dag rgya cher smras pa daṅ |
[42] One of the servants of the minister Pracaṇḍa came and informed
that the lad Suvarṇavarṇa had been driven out from the city of Rājagṛha.
Hearing it, he became glad at heart.
Then those citizens, the men of business, having heard it, became devoid of hope.
They returned and related that episode in detail to those citizens.
On hearing it, those citizens, too, became devoid of hope.
Distressed, they said to one another:
"Sirs, this quarrelsome king deprived his father, who was such a pious and righteous king, of his life.
Now, he has begun to execute even such distinguished men of renowned virtues, dear to the populace, and rarely to be seen.
Ah! the mercilessness! Ah! the lack of appreciation of virtues!
Ah! the lack of discrimination of the ministers! How is such a virtuous and distinguished man who is, indeed, thus worthy of respect on account of the exceeding nobility of his figure, and on account of being well-behaved, given up for execution without investigation?
Perhaps such a time has come as that when the bad prosper,
and there will be such a separation of one endowed with such virtues."
Manifesting the decline of the times, they related this episode in detail to the caravan leader, Divākara.