Dhammapada 1.2.2_4

1.2.2_4

Tasmiṃ khaṇe maṭṭhakuṇḍalī antogehābhimukho nipanno hoti. Athassa satthā attano apassanabhāvaṃ ñatvā ekaṃ rasmiṃ vissajjesi. Māṇavo ‘‘kiṃ obhāso nāmeso’’ti parivattetvā nipannova satthāraṃ disvā, ‘‘andhabālapitaraṃ nissāya evarūpaṃ buddhaṃ upasaṅkamitvā kāyaveyyāvaṭikaṃ vā kātuṃ dānaṃ vā dātuṃ dhammaṃ vā sotuṃ nālatthaṃ, idāni me hatthāpi anadhipateyyā, aññaṃ kattabbaṃ natthī’’ti manameva pasādesi. Satthā ‘‘alaṃ ettakena cittappasādena imassā’’ti pakkāmi. So tathāgate cakkhupathaṃ vijahanteyeva pasannamano kālaṃ katvā suttappabuddho viya devaloke tiṃsayojanike kanakavimāne nibbatti.

As the Tathāgata receded from his range of vision, he died with a believing heart, and as if awaking from sleep, was reborn in the World of the Gods in a golden mansion thirty leagues in extent. The Brahman burned the body of his son, and resorting to the burning-ground, abandoned himself entirely to lamentation. Every day he would go to the burning-ground and weep and say, “Where are you, my only son?”