Women failed to Win the Prince Siddhartha Gautam | Women and Buddha

Father's Plans to Save His Son | Lord Gautam buddha and Father Shuddhodana | Shuddhodana and Siddhartha  | The Failure of the Women to Win the Prince | Women and Buddha.

• Having heard these words of Udayin, the women strung to the heart, rose even above themselves for the conquest of the prince. 
• But even with their brows, their glances, their coquetries, their smiles, their delicate movements, the girls of the harem did not feel sure of themselves. 
• But they soon regained their confidence through the command of the family priest and the gentle temperament of the prince, and through the power of intoxication and of love.
• The women then set upon their task and made the prince wander in the woods like an elephant in the forests of Himavat, accompanied by a herd of females.
• Attended by women, he shone in that pleasant grove, as the sun surrounded by Apsaras in his royal garden.
• There, some of them urged by passion, pressed him with their full, firm bosoms in gentle collisions.
• Others violently embraced him after pretending to stumble, then leaning on him with their shoulders drooping down, and with their gentle creeper-like arms. 
• Others with their mouths smelling of spirituous liquor, their lower lips red like copper, whispered in bis ear, "Let my secret be heard."
• Others, all wet with unguents, as if giving him a command, clasped his hand eagerly and said, "Perform thy rites of. adoration here."
• Another with her blue garments continually slipping down in pretended intoxication, stood conspicuous with her tongue visible like the night with its lightning lashing.
• Others with their golden ones tinkling, wandered about here and there, showing him their bodies veiled with thin cloth. 
• Others leaned, holding a mango bough in hand, displaying their bosoms like golden jars.
• Some, coming from a lotus bed, carrying lotuses and with eyes like lotuses, stood like the lotus goddess Padma, by the side of that lotus-faced prince.
• Another sang a sweet song easily understood and with the proper gesticulations, rousing him, self-subdued though he was, by her glance, as saying, "O how thou art deluded ! " 
• Another, having armed herself with her bright face, with its brow drawn to its full, imitated his action, as playing the hero.
• Another, with beautiful, full bosoms, and having her earrings waving in the wind, laughed loudly at him, as if saying, " Catch me, sir, if you can ! "
• Some, as he was going away, bound him with strings of garlands, others punished him with words like an elephant-driver's hook, gentle yet reproachful.
• Another, wishing to argue with him, seizing a mango spray, asked, all bewildered with passion, "'This flower, whose is it?" 
• Another, assuming a gait and attitude like that of a man, said to him, " You who are conquered. by a woman, go and conquer this earth! "
• Then another with rolling eyes, smelling a blue lotus, thus addressed the prince with words slightly indistinct in her excitement :
• " See, my lord, this mango covered with its honey-scented flowers, where the bird kokila sings, as if imprisoned in a golden cage.
• "Come and see this Asoka tree, which augments lovers' sorrows, where the bees make a noise as if they were scorched by fire.
• " Come and see this Tilaka tree, embraced by a slender mango branch, like a man in a white garment by a woman decked with yellow ungents.
• " Behold the kurubaka in flower, bright like fresh resin-juice, which bends down as if it felt reproached by the colour of women's nails.
• " Come and see this young Asoka, covered all over with new shoots, which stands as if it were ashamed at the beauty of our hands.
• " See this lake surrounded by the Sinduvara shrubs growing on its banks, like afair woman reclining, clad in fine white cloth.
• " See the imperial power of females, yonder Ruddygoose in the water, goes behind, his mate follow-. ing her like a slave. 
• "Come and listen to the notes of the intoxicated Cuckoo as he sings, while another cuckoo sings as if consenting wholly without care.
• " Would that thine was the intoxication of the birds which the spring produces, and not the thought of a thinking man, ever pondering how wise he is ! 
• Thus these young women, their souls carried away by love, assailed the prince with all kinds of stratagems.
• But although thus attacked, he, having his sense guarded by self-control; neither rejoiced nor smiled.
• Having seen them in their real condition, the Prince pondered with an undisturbed and steadfast mind.
• " What is it that these women lack that they perceive not that youth is fickle? For old age will destroy whatever beauty has." 
• This round of blandishment went on for months and years with no results.