འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.17

5.17

And my mind is fainting, so tell me quickly!”

“ ‘The two youths then related in detail what had occurred, and as soon as the king and queen³⁹⁴ heard it, they swooned.³⁹⁵ When they recovered from their swoon, they cried piteously and went to that place.

“ ‘When the king and queen saw those bones with no flesh, blood, or entrails remaining and the hair scattered here and there, they collapsed as if blown over by a wind.

“ ‘When the principal attendants and ministers saw that, they soothed the king and queen’s bodies with a balm made of water and Malaya Mountain sandalwood.

“ ‘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 and 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.³⁹⁶

“ ‘ “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,