The Bodhisatta's Sacrifice
…harm, and saluting his mother cried, “Goodbye, mother.”
The Yakkha said, “If you do not return, my son, I cannot live,”
and she smote upon her breast, and straightway in sorrow for her son her heart wa…
The Bodhisatta bids farewell to his mother Yakkha, grieving her death after she collapses from sorrow. He honors her with a funeral pyre and returns to Benares with his father. Upon his arrival, he de