Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 157
105. And having bathed, thin as he was, slowly came up the bank of
the Nairañjanā, supported as by a hand by the trees on the shore,
which bent down the ends of their branches in adoration.
106. Now at that time Nandabalā, the daughter of the leader of the
herdsmen, impelled by the gods, with a sudden joy risen in her heart,
had just come near,
107. Her arm gay with a white shell, and wearing a dark blue woollen
cloth, like the river Yamunā, with its dark blue water and its wreath
of foam.
108. She, having her joy increased by her faith, with her lotus-like
eyes opened wide, bowed down before him and persuaded him to take
some milk.
109. By partaking that food having made her obtain the full reward of
her birth, he himself became capable of gaining the highest
knowledge, all his six senses being now satisfied,
110. The seer, having his body now fully robust, together with his
glorious fame, one beauty and one majesty being equally spread in
both, shone like the ocean and the moon.
111. Thinking that he had returned to the world the five mendicants
left him, as the five elements leave the wise soul when it is liberated.
112. Accompanied only by his own resolve, having fixed his mind on
the attainment of perfect knowledge, he went to the root of an