English
On the second day, he adorned himself with ornaments of gold. On the third day, however, he bestowed only a small amount of silver ornaments. The queen of that turn grew angry, and complained to King Tsongpa, saying: “Each day I serve with greater devotion than the last, yet why does this virtuous one show me ever less favor?” Then the king caused the virtuous one to speak together with the queen. The virtuous woman said: “O lord, what can be done with this mind that knows no satisfaction? It is like building a bridge where there is no water. Even if one favors this virtuous one, no fruit will come of it.” The king, receiving this reply, said: “O virtuous one, this commodity is by its very nature flawed. His body changes from day to day, and his ornaments too are gifts from others. Just as old flowers are cast away, so long as people desire what pleases them, they abandon the old and follow after the new. All things by nature arise and cease in an instant: the herds are taken by old age, life is seized by death. All is impermanent. The ignorant, not knowing that old age, death, and suffering rob the mind of its firmness, are deluded by clinging to what is called ‘woman,’ becoming attached to the impure bag of bones and flesh. The wise, knowing that attachment to women holds many faults, rebuke it.” The king praised, saying: “Excellent!” Then the queen of that turn too abandoned her pride in beauty and youth, and entered into one-pointed quiescence. Thus all beings renounced heedlessness and upheld morality. The Bodhisattva once more dwelled in the solitude of the forest cliffs. Long ago, when the Blessed One was born as the king of the gods, the Hundred-Gifted One, he dwelt in a forest. There a great ascetic lived, and wild beasts and birds abided joyfully nearby as if they were his disciples. At that time a female elephant gave birth to a very ugly calf. Being abandoned by its mother, it was cared for by a sage…
Tibetan
དེས་བུ་ལྟར་བྱམས་པར་བྱེད་ཅིང་། ཕྲུ་གུ་དེས་ཀྱང་པདྨའི་རྩ་བ་དང་འོད་མའི་འདབ་མ་སོགས་བཟུང་སྟེ་ཐུབ་པ་དེའི་ལག་ཏུ་གཏོད་པར་བྱེད་དོ། །དེ་ཤིང་ལོའི་ཁང་པའི་ཉེ་འཁོར་དུ་གནས་ཤིང་དྲང་སྲོང་དེ་གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་ཁྲིད་ནས་རི་དགས་པགས་པ་སོགས་དེ་ལ་བཀལ་ཏེ་འོང་བར་བྱེད་ཅིང་དྲང་སྲོང་གི་ལས་སུ་བྱ་བ་ཕལ་ལ་དེས་གྲོགས་བྱེད་དོ། །ནམ་ཞིག་ཕྲུ་གུ་དེ་རང་གི་མའི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་ནས་ནགས་སུ་འཁྱམས་སོ། །དྲང་སྲོང་དེས་མེའི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་སོགས་བྱས་ནས་ཟས་བཟའ་བའི་ཚེ་གླང་ཕྲུག་དེ་བཙལ་ཀྱང་མ་མཐོང་བས། ཟས་ཀྱི་བྱ་བ་བཞག་སྟེ། དེའི་རྐང་རྗེས་ལ་བལྟས་ནས་བཙལ་བ་ན་མའི་ནུ་མ་ནུ་བར་མཐོང་ནས་མྱ་ངན་བྱེད་པ། གླང་མོའི་ཕྲུ་གུ་དེས་མཐོང་ནས་བསུ་བར་གྱུར་ཏོ། །དྲང་སྲོང་དེས་མཆི་མས་མིག་གང་བཞིན་དེའི་མགོ་ལ་ལག་པས་བྱུགས་ཏེ། ཁྱོད་མའི་ནུ་མ་འཐུང་བས་ཅི་བྱ། ཆུ་འཐུང་ཞིང་བདག་ཅག་གི་བསྟི་གནས་སུ་འདོང་ཞེས་ཁྲིད་ནས། དེ་ལ་ཤིང་ལོའི་སྤྱིལ་བུ་བྱས་ཏེ། ཉིན་མཚན་དུ་དེ་སྲུང་བའི་སེམས་པས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བྱམས་པར་བྱེད་དོ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་གྱིས་ལྷའི་མིག་གིས་གླང་པོའི་ཕྲུ་གུ་ལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་བྱམས་པས་ཡིད་ཞེན་པ་དྲག་པོ་ཅན་དེ་ལ་བལྟས་ནས་འདི་སྙམ་དུ། ཐུབ་ ཤོག་ལྷེབ་ ༧༠༡ ནས་ ༨༠༠ བར།
Chinese
于是那孩童一般慈爱的心怀而为。那小牛犊亦取莲花之根与光明之叶等，捧而置于仙人之手。彼又于林木之屋宇附近安住，随仙人所往之处牵引而来，负载薪柴叶草等而随行，复助仙人所作之事多焉。某时小牛犊循母之后徘徊林间。仙人施火供等已，适欲进食之时，寻小牛犊而不见，遂置饮食，回顾其足迹而求之，见其入母之乳间，遂致困苦。母牛之子见而来迎。仙人以泪盈眶，手抚其头曰：“汝饮母乳何为？当饮水而随我等入清净之住处。”于是以林叶覆之，昼夜守护，怀极大慈爱。菩萨百吉祥以天眼见此小牛，深怀慈悲，而观彼强烈执著之情，作是念曰：‘善哉。’ （出自《释迦谱》卷701–800之间）
English
Thus, with a heart loving like that of a child, he acted. The calf also took the root of the lotus and the leaves of radiance, and placed them into the hand of the sage. Dwelling near the woodland hut, it followed wherever the sage went, carrying firewood, leaves, and the like, and assisting in many of the sage’s tasks. At one time, the calf followed after its mother and wandered in the forest. When the sage had completed fire offerings and was about to take food, he searched for the calf but did not see it. Leaving aside the food, he looked at its footprints and followed them, finding it nestled at its mother’s breast, and thus distressed. The calf, seeing the sage, came forth to greet him. The sage, eyes brimming with tears, stroked its head with his hand, saying: “Why do you drink your mother’s milk? You should drink water and come with us to the place of purity.” Then he made a leafy covering for it and guarded it day and night, cherishing it with great compassion. The Bodhisattva Hundred-Blessings, with the divine eye, beheld the calf, deeply compassionate, and, seeing its strong attachment, thought thus: ‘Well indeed.’ (Source: Śākyamuni narrative, between folios 701–800)