The Bodhisatta's Sacrifice
…a, still standing in the river, folded his hands tortoise-wise and took the charm, and saluting his mother cried, “Goodbye, mother.”
The Yakkha said, “If you do not return, my son, I cannot live,”
and she…
The Bodhisatta bids farewell to his mother Yakkha, grieving her death after she collapses from sorrow. He honors her with a funeral pyre and r…