Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 165
34. Then Māra commanded his excited army of demons to terrify
him; and forthwith that host resolved to break down his
determination with their various powers.
35. Some with many tongues hanging out and shaking, with sharppointed
savage teeth and eyes like the disk of the sun, with wideyawning
mouths and upright ears like spikes, – they stood round
trying to frighten him.
36. Before these monsters standing there, so dreadful in form and
disposition, the great sage remained unalarmed and untroubled,
sporting with them as if they had been only rude children.
37. Then one of them, with his eyes rolling wildly, lifted up a club
against him; but his arm with the club was instantly paralysed, as was
Indra’s of old with its thunderbolt.
38. Some, having lifted up stones and trees, found themselves unable
to throw them against the sage; down they fell, with their trees and
their stones, like the roots of the Vindhya shattered by the
thunderbolt.
39. Others, leaping up into the sky, flung rocks, trees, and axes; these
remained in the sky and did not fall down, like the many-coloured
rays of the evening clouds.
40. Another hurled upon him a mass of blazing straw as big as a
mountain-peak, which, as soon as it was thrown, while it hung poised