Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 124
7. In the men and the women on the highway, even though they were
intent on other business, that conduct alone with the profoundest
reverence seemed proper which is enjoined by the rules of royal
homage; but his eyes never looked upon them.
8. His brows, his forehead, his mouth, or his eyes, – his body, his
hands, his feet, or his gait, – whatever part of him any one beheld,
that at once riveted his eyes.
9. Having beheld him with the beautiful circle of hair between his
brows and with long eyes, with his radiant body and his hands
showing a graceful membrane between the fingers, – so worthy of
ruling the earth and yet wearing a mendicant’s dress, – the Goddess of
10. Then Śreṇya, the lord of the court of the Magadhas, beheld from
the outside of his palace the immense concourse of people, and asked
the reason of it; and thus did a man recount it to him:
11. ‘He who was thus foretold by the Brāhmans, "he will either attain
supreme wisdom or the empire of the earth," – it is he, the son of the
king of the Śākyas, who is the ascetic whom the people are gazing at.’
12. The king, having heard this and perceived its meaning with his
mind, thus at once spoke to that man: ‘Let it be known whither he is
going;’ and the man, receiving the command, followed the prince.