Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 166
in the sky, was shattered into a hundred fragments by the sage’s
power.
41. One, rising up like the sun in full splendour, rained down from the
sky a great shower of live embers, as at the end of an aeon blazing
Meru showers down the pulverised scoriae of the golden valleys.
42. But that shower of embers full of sparks, when scattered at the
foot of the Bodhi tree, became a shower of red lotus-petals through
the operation of the great saint’s boundless charity.
43. But with all these various scorching assaults on his body and his
mind, and all these missiles showered down upon him, the Śākya saint
did not in the least degree move from his posture, clasping firmly his
resolution as a kinsman.
44. Then others spat out serpents from their mouths as from old
decayed trunks of trees; but, as if held fast by a charm, near him they
neither breathed nor discharged venom nor moved.
45. Others, having become great clouds, emitting lightning and
uttering the fierce roar of thunderbolts, poured a shower of stones
upon that tree, – but it turned to a pleasant shower of flowers.
46. Another set an arrow in his bow, – there it gleamed but it did not
issue forth, like the anger which falls slack in the soul of an illtempered
impotent man.