Harsha

“ Sir, how should I not weep, since just now my father, having discovered that he is old, and influenced by a sudden disgust for the world, saying to himself, "Art thou fit to support the duties of a household?" ”

“ See! saviour though thou art, thou dost not protect us, sick with the shafts of Love. Falsely art thou compassionate. Who is more cruel than thou?"
May Buddha, the conqueror, who was thus jealously addressed by the nymphs of Mára, [2] protect you! ”

“ The sage, however, endures both temptations with unruffled equanimity, and eventually the tempter retires utterly baffled.—See Lalita-Vistara, ch. xxi. ↑ In the Buddhist mythology, Indra is the king of the lowest heaven but one; Mára being located in the sixth or highest, and having more or less influence over all the beings beneath him. ↑ Siddha, a divine person of undefined attributes and character—a sort of demigod or spirit, inhabiting, together with the Vidyádharas, Munis, &c., the region between the earth and the sun.—See Wilson’s Dictionary. ↑ i.e. Vidyádharas. ”