Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 170
66. ‘Him whose one desire is to deliver mankind bound in soul by the
fast snares of illusion, – thy wish to overthrow him is not worthy,
wearied as he is for the sake of unloosing the bonds of the world.
67. ‘To-day is the appointed period of all those actions which have
been performed by him for the sake of knowledge, – he is now seated
on this seat just as all the previous saints have sat.
68. ‘This is the navel of the earth’s surface, endued with all the
highest glory; there is no other spot of the earth than this, – the home
of contemplation, the realm of well-being.
69. ‘Give not way, then, to grief but put on calm; let not thy greatness,
O Māra, be mixed with pride; it is not well to be confident, – fortune
is unstable, – why dost thou accept a position on a tottering base’
70. Having listened to his words, and having seen the unshaken
firmness of the great saint, Māra departed dispirited and broken in
purpose with those very arrows by which, O world, thou art smitten in
thy heart.
71. With their triumph at an end, their labour all fruitless, and all
their stones, straw, and trees thrown away, that host of his fled in all
directions, like some hostile army when its camp has been destroyed
by the enemy.
72. When the flower-armed god thus fled away vanquished with his
hostile forces and the passionless sage remained victorious, having