Book the Fourth

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In Book the Fourth, Yasodhara dreams of omens signaling Siddhartha's departure. Despite her grief, the Prince—driven by a "prodigious love" for all suffering beings—resolves to renounce his royalty. Under a full moon, he leaves his sleeping wife and child, slips past the magically silenced palace guards with his charioteer Channa, and crosses the river Anoma. There, he sheds his princely robes and hair, vowing to find the path to enlightenment.

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