Library·Asvaghosa: Buddhacarita·9·9.62
कः कण्टकस्य प्रकरोति तैक्ष्ण्यं विचित्रभावं मृगपक्षिणां वा । स्वभावतः सर्वमिदं प्रवृत्तं न कामकारो ऽस्ति कुतः प्रयत्नः
kaḥ kaṇṭakasya prakaroti taikṣṇyaṃ vicitrabhāvaṃ mṛgapakṣiṇāṃ vā / svabhāvataḥ sarvamidaṃ pravṛttaṃ na kāmakāro 'sti kutaḥ prayatnaḥ
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.
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Cite as: Asvaghosa: Buddhacarita 9.62, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Bc/9.62), after GRETIL, Asvaghosa: Buddhacarita Based on the edition by E.H.
GRETIL 5_poetry/2_kavya/asvbuc2u.htm — Asvaghosa: Buddhacarita Based on the edition by E.H. Johnston: The Buddhacarita: Or, Acts of the Buddha, Part I. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press 1935 (Panjab University Oriental Publications, 31) Input by members of the Sanskrit Buddhist Input Project. With ki
GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.