A History of Sanskrit Literature c10.s2.16

c10.s2.16

'With deep longing and many a pain did she bear me in her womb; all her effort hath come to nought; why was she mother, why was I her son?' As often the idea has a prototype in the *Rāmāyaṇa*,¹ but Açvaghoṣa has heightened by his delicate touch the effect of the whole.