Dighanikaya 4.304_5

4.304_5

Daharova samānoti taruṇova samāno. Susukāḷakesoti suṭṭhu kāḷakeso, añjanavaṇṇasadisakeso hutvā vāti attho. Bhadrenāti bhaddakena. Paṭhamena vayasāti tiṇṇaṃ vayānaṃ paṭhamavayena. Akāmakānanti anicchamānānaṃ. Anādaratthe sāmivacanaṃ. Assūni mukhe etesanti assumukhā, tesaṃ assumukhānaṃ, assūhi kilinnamukhānanti attho. Rudantānanti kanditvā rodamānānaṃ. Akhuddāvakāsoti ettha bhagavato aparimāṇoyeva dassanāya okāsoti veditabbo.

"While still young" means being merely a youth. "With intensely black hair" means with exceedingly black hair, having hair resembling the color of collyrium, is the meaning. "With auspicious" means with splendid. "First stage of life" means in the first of the three stages of life. "Unwilling" means not desiring. This genitive case is used in the sense of disregard. "Their faces were wet with tears" means having tearful faces; "their" means of those tearful-faced ones; the meaning is: whose faces were wet with tears. "Crying" means wailing and lamenting. "No mean room" (akhuddāvakāsa): here, it should be understood that the scope for beholding the Blessed One is simply immeasurable.