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“ ‘After a long time had passed, they recovered consciousness, and the king stood and cried out piteously:

“ ‘ “Why has my beautiful, handsome, delightful son
Fallen so quickly under the power of the lord of death?
Why have I not gone to the lord of death before him?
Compared to this, I have never had any suffering.”

“ ‘The queen also, when she had recovered from her faint, loosened her hair, beat her breast with both hands, writhed on the ground like a fish on dry land, and cried out piteously like a female buffalo or a female camel that has lost her offspring:

“ ‘ “Alas! Who would rend and scatter on the earth
My beloved, beautiful son, who was like a lotus?
What enemy of mine has, on this day, in this place, destroyed
My son who had beautiful eyes and a face like the moon?

“ ‘ “Alas! Why has my body not been broken on this day
By seeing my perfect son slain on this ground?
This heart of mine must truly be made of iron
To have not split apart on witnessing this suffering. ⁵²⁸

“ ‘ “Because in a dream I had today
Someone cut off my breasts with a sword
And my teeth fell out, I knew something
Dreadful had happened to my son.

“ ‘ “I had found three chicks of a dove,
And one of them was taken away by a hawk.
In that way, from the three boys who were around me,
The lord of death has taken one away today.”

“ ‘Then the king and queen, crying out pitifully many times, cast off their jewelry and together with a great crowd of beings made offerings to the boy’s bones, and then they placed the bones in this spot.

“ ‘Ānanda, if you think that at that time, in that time, the prince called Mahāsattva was anyone else, do not have that view. Why is that? At that time, I was the prince called Mahāsattva.

“ ‘Ānanda, even at that time, when I was not completely freed from desire, anger, and ignorance, I helped every being, such as those in the hells, be freed from suffering,