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How much more then, in your case, should you partake in such pleasant joys;
299. ’Nor refuse, with wilful heart, to participate in the worldly delights, which your present station, possessed of such advantages, offers you, in the presence of these attendants.’

81. ‘Great heroes such as these pursued even contemptible desires for the sake of pleasure, how much more so when they are praiseworthy of their kind?

tvaṃ punar nyāyataḥ prāptān balavān rūpavān yuvā |
viṣayān avajānāsi yatra saktam idaṃ jagat || 4.82 ||

82. ‘And yet thou, a young man, possessed of strength and beauty, despisest enjoyments which rightly belong to thee, and to which the whole world is devoted.’

iti śrutvā vacas tasya ślakṣṇam āgamasaṃhitam |
meghastanitanirghoṣaḥ kumāraḥ pratyabhāṣata || 4.83 ||

(29)爾時王太子聞友優陀夷
(8a1)甜辭利口辯善説世間相

300. At this time the royal prince, hearing the words of his friend Udâyi, so skilfully put, with such fine distinction, cleverly citing worldly instances,

83. Having heard these specious words of his, well-supported by sacred tradition, the prince made reply, in a voice like the thundering of a cloud:

upapannam idaṃ vākyaṃ sauhārdavyañjakaṃ tvayi |
atra ca tvānuneṣyāmi yatra mā duṣṭhu manyase || 4.84 ||

(2)答言優陀夷感汝誠心説
(3)我今當語汝且復留心聽

301. Answered thus to Udâyi: ’Thank you for having spoken sincerely to me, let me likewise answer you in the same way, and let your heart suspend its judgment whilst you listen;

84. ‘This speech manifesting affection is well-befitting in thee; but I will convince thee as to where thou wrongly judgest me.

nāvajānāmi viṣayān¹ jāne lokaṃ tadātmakam |
anityaṃ tu jagan matvā nātra me ramate manaḥ || 4.85 ||

1. EBC: viṣayāñ

(4)不薄妙境界亦知世人樂
(5)但見無常相故生患累心

302. ’It is not that I am careless about beauty, or am ignorant of (the power of) human joys, but only that I see on all the impress of change; therefore my heart is sad and heavy;

85. ‘I do not despise worldly objects, I know that all mankind are bound up therein; but remembering that the world is transitory, my mind cannot find pleasure in them.

jarā vyādhiś ca mṛtyuś ca yadi na syād idaṃ trayam |
mamāpi hi manojñeṣu viṣayeṣu ratir bhavet || 4.86 ||

(6)若此法常存無老病死苦
(7)我亦應¹ 受樂終無厭離心

1. 受＝愛＜元＞＜明＞

303. ’If these things were sure of lasting, without the ills of age, disease, and death, then would I too take my fill of love; and to the end find no disgust or sadness;

86. ‘Old age, disease, and death--if these three things did not exist, I too should find my enjoyment in the objects that please the mind.

nityaṃ yady api hi strīṇām etad eva vapur bhavet |
doṣavatsv api² kāmeṣu kāmaṃ rajyeta me manaḥ³ || 4.87 ||

2. EBC: sasaṃvitkasya. 3. EBC: tathāpi na ratiḥ kṣamā.

(8)若令諸女色至竟無衰變
(9)愛欲雖爲過猶可留人情

304. ’If you will undertake to cause these women’s beauty not after-while to change or wither, then, though the joy of love may have its evil, still it might hold the mind in thraldom;

87. ‘Yet even though this beauty of women were to remain perpetual, still delight in the pleasures of desire would not be worthy of the wise man.

yadā tu jarayāpītaṃ⁴ rūpam āsāṃ bhaviṣyati |
ātmano ’py anabhipretaṃ mohāt tatra ratir bhavet || 4.88 ||

4. EBC: jarayā pītaṃ

(10)人有老病死彼應自不樂
(11)何況於他人而生染著心

305. (’To know that other) men grow old, sicken, and die, would be enough to rob such joys of satisfaction; yet how much more in their own case (knowing this) would discontentment fill the mind;

88. ‘But since their beauty will be drunk up by old age, to delight therein through infatuation cannot be a thing approved even by thyself.

mṛtyuvyādhijarādharmā⁵ mṛtyuvyādhijarātmabhiḥ |
ramamāṇo hy⁶ asaṃvignaḥ samāno mṛgapakṣibhiḥ || 4.89 ||

5. EBC: dharmo. 6. EBC: apy.

(12)非常五欲境自身倶亦然
(13)而生愛樂心此則同禽獸

306. ’(To know) such pleasures hasten to decay, and their bodies likewise; if, notwithstanding this, men yield to the power of love, their case indeed is like the very beasts.

89. ‘He who himself subject to death, disease, and old age, can sport undisturbed with those whose very nature implies death, disease, and old age, such a man is on a level with birds and beasts.

yad apy āttha mahātmānas te ’pi kāmātmakā iti |
saṃvego atraiva⁷ kartavyo yadā teṣām api kṣayaḥ || 4.90 ||

7. EBC: atra na.

(14)汝所引諸仙習著五欲者
(15)彼即可厭患習欲故磨滅

307. ’And now you cite the names of many Rishis, who practised lustful ways in life; their cases likewise cause me sorrow, for in that they did these things, they perished.

90. ‘And as for what thou sayest as to even those great men having become victims to desire, do not be bewildered by them, for destruction was also their lot.

māhātmyaṃ na ca tan manye yatra sāmānyataḥ kṣayaḥ |
viṣayeṣu prasaktir vā yuktir vā nātmavattayā || 4.91 ||

(16)又稱彼勝² 士樂著五欲境
(17)亦復同磨滅當知彼非勝

2. 士＝王＜三＞

308. ’Again, you cite the name of that illustrious king, who freely gratified his passions, but he, in like way, perished in the act; know, then, that he was not a conqueror (Gina);

91. ‘Real greatness is not to be found there, where there is universally destruction, or where there is attachment to earthly objects, or a want of self-control.

yad apy ātthānṛtenāpi strījane vartyatām iti |
anṛtaṃ nāvagacchāmi dākṣiṇyenāpi kiṃcana || 4.92 ||

(18)³ 若言假方便隨順習近者
(19)習則眞染著何名爲方便

3. 若＝善＜三＞

309. ’With smooth words to conceal an intrigue, and to persuade one’s neighbour to consent, and by consenting to defile his mind; how can this be called a just device?

92. ‘And when thou sayest, "Let one deal with women even by guile," I know nought about guile, even if it be accompanied with courtesy.

na cānuvartanaṃ tan me rucitaṃ yatra nārjavam |
sarvabhāvena saṃparko yadi nāsti dhig astu tat || 4.93 ||

(20)虚誑⁴ 僞隨順是事我不爲
(21)眞實隨順者是則爲非法

4. 僞＝爲＜三＞

310. ’It is but to seduce one with a hollow lie,--such ways are not for me to practise; or, for those who love the truth and honesty; for they are, forsooth, unrighteous ways,

93. ‘That compliance too with a woman’s wishes pleases me not, if truthfulness be not there; if there be not a union with one’s whole soul and nature, then "out upon it" say I.

adhrṭeḥ⁸ śraddadhānasya saktasyādoṣadarśinaḥ |
kiṃ hi vañcayitavyaṃ syāj jātarāgasya cetasaḥ || 4.94 ||

8. EBC: anṛte.

(22)此心難裁抑隨事即生著
(23)著則不見過如何方便隨

311. ’And such a disposition is hard to reverence; shaping one’s conduct after one’s likings, liking this or that, and seeing no harm in it, what method of experience is this!

94. ‘A soul overpowered by passion, believing in falsehood, carried away by attachment and blind to the faults of its objects,--what is there in it worth being deceived?

vañcayanti ca yady evaṃ⁹ jātarāgāḥ parasparam |
nanu naiva kṣamaṃ draṣṭuṃ narāḥ strīṇāṃ nṛṇām striyaḥ || 4.95 ||

9. EBC: eva

(24)⁵ 處順而心乖此理我不見
(25)⁶ 如是老病死大苦之積聚

5. 處＝虚＜三＞ 6. 如＝知＜三＞

312. ’A hollow compliance, and a protesting heart, such method is not for me to follow; but this I know, old age, disease, and death, these are the great afflictions which accumulate,

95. ‘And if the victims of passion do deceive one another,--are not men unfit for women to look at and women for men?

tad evaṃ sati duḥkhārtaṃ jarāmaraṇabhāginam¹⁰ |
na māṃ kāmeṣv anāryeṣu pratārayitum arhasi || 4.96 ||

10. EBC: bhoginam.

(26)令我墜其中此非知識説
(27)嗚呼優陀夷眞爲大肝膽

313. And overwhelm me with their presence; on these I find no friend to speak, alas! alas! Udâyi! these, after all, are the great concerns;

96. Since then these things are so, thou surely wouldest not lead me astray into ignoble pleasures,--me afflicted by sorrow, and subject to old age and death?

aho ’tidhīraṃ balavac ca te manaś caleṣu kāmeṣu ca sāradarśinaḥ |
bhaye atitīvre¹¹ viṣayeṣu sajjase nirīkṣamāṇo maraṇādhvani prajāḥ || 4.97 ||

11. EBC: api tīvre.

(28)生老病死患此苦甚可畏
(29)眼見悉朽壞而猶樂追逐

ae (2)ma śin tu brtan la stobs ldan khyod kyi sems | | ’dod pa g-yo ba rnams su sñiṅ po mthoṅ gyur la | |
śin tu rno źiṅ ’jigs pa’i yul la zon mdzad ciṅ | | rga daṅ rgud pa nad kyi ’jigs pa rnam sems śiṅ | |

314. ’The pain of birth, old age, disease, and death; this grief is that we have to fear; the eyes see all things falling to decay, and yet the heart finds joy in following them;

97. ‘Ah! thy mind must be very firm and strong, if thou canst find substance in the transitory pleasures of sense; even in the midst of violent alarm thou canst cling to worldly objects, when thou seest all created beings in the road of death.

ahaṃ punar bhīrur atīvaviklavo jarāvipadvyādhibhayaṃ vicintayan |
labhe na śāntiṃ na dhṛtiṃ kuto ratiṃ niśāmayan dīptam ivāgninā jagat || 4.98 ||

(8b1)今我至儜劣其心亦狹小
(2)思惟老病死卒至不預期
(3)晝夜忘睡眠何由習五欲

’gro ba rnams ni me yis tshig pa bźin thos na | | źi ba ’thob min brtan min dga’ (3)ba ga la źig | |
the tshom med par ’chi źes rab tu śes pa yi | | mi rnams gaṅ gi sñiṅ la chags pa rab skyed pa | |

315. ’But I have little strength of purpose, or command; this heart of mine is feeble and distraught, reflecting thus on age, disease, and death. Distracted, as I never was before;
316. ’Sleepless by night and day, how can I then indulge in pleasure?

98. ‘But I am fearful and exceedingly bewildered, as I ponder the terrors of old age, death, and disease; I can find no peace, no self-command, much less can I find pleasure, while I see the world as it were ablaze with fire.

asaṃśayaṃ mṛtyur iti prajānato narasya rāgo hṛdi yasya jāyate |
ayomayīṃ tasya paraimi cetanāṃ mahābhaye rajyati¹² yo na roditi || 4.99 ||

12. EBC: rakṣati.

(4)老病死熾然決定至無疑
(5)猶不知憂慼眞爲木石心

de yi sems ni lcags las gyur par śes pa ste | | ’jigs pa che la chags pa gaṅ źig du ba med | |
de nas gźon nu yis ni ’dod pa rnams kyis bsten | | ’joms byed (4)gtam ni rnam par ṅes pa’i bdag ñid mdzad | |

Old age, disease, and death consuming me, their certainty beyond a doubt,
317. ’And still to have no heavy thoughts, in truth my heart would be a log or stone.’

99. ‘If desire arises in the heart of the man, who knows that death is certain,--I think that his soul must be made of iron, who restrains it in this great terror and does not weep.’

atho kumāraś ca viniścayātmikāṃ cakāra kāmāśrayaghātinīṃ kathām |
janasya cakṣurgamanīyamaṇḍalo mahīdharaṃ cāstam iyāya bhāskaraḥ || 4.100 ||

(6)太子爲優陀種種巧方便
(7)説欲爲深患不覺至日暮

skye bo rnams kyi mig gi ’gro bya gsal byed kyi | | dkyil ’khor sa ’dzin ri bo la ni nub par gyur | |

Thus the prince, for Uda’s sake, used every kind of skilful argument,
318. Describing all the pains of pleasure; and not perceiving that the day declined.

100. Then the prince uttered a discourse full of resolve and abolishing the objects of desire; and the lord of day, whose orb is the worthy centre of human eyes, departed to the Western Mountain.

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