Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 14
31. With glory, fortitude, and beauty he shone like the young sun
descended upon the earth; when he was gazed at, though of such
surpassing brightness, he attracted all eyes like the moon.
32. With the radiant splendour of his limbs he extinguished like the
sun the splendour of the lamps; with his beautiful hue as of precious
gold he illuminated all the quarters of space.
33. Unflurried, with the lotus-sign in high relief, far-striding, set
down with a stamp, – seven such firm footsteps did he then take, – he
34. ‘I am born for supreme knowledge, for the welfare of the world, –
thus this is my last birth,’ thus did he of lion gait, gazing at the four
quarters, utter a voice full of auspicious meaning.
35. Two streams of water bursting from heaven, bright as the moon’s
rays, having the power of heat and cold, fell down upon that peerless
one’s benign head to give refreshment to his body.
36. His body lay on a bed with a royal canopy and a frame shining
with gold, and supported by feet of lapis lazuli, and in his honour the
yakṣa-lords stood round guarding him with golden lotuses in their
hands.
37. The gods in homage to the son of Māyā, with their heads bowed at
his majesty, held up a white umbrella in the sky and muttered the
highest blessings on his supreme wisdom.