Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 16
44. The flowering trees at once produced their blossoms, while their
fragrance was borne aloft in all directions by the wind, accompanied
by the songs of bewildered female bees, while the air was inhaled and
absorbed by the many snakes (gathering near).
45. Sometimes there resounded on both sides songs mingled with
musical instruments and tabours, and lutes also, drums, tambourines,
and the rest, from women adorned with dancing bracelets.
those
two great seers the founders of families, their two sons Śukra and
47. ‘Yea, the son of Sarasvatī I proclaimed that lost Veda which they
had never seen in former ages, – Vyāsa rehearsed that in many forms,
which Vaśiṣṭha helpless could not compile;
48. ‘The voice of Vālmīki uttered its poetry which the great seer
Cyavana could not compose; and that medicine which Atri never
invented the wise son of Atri proclaimed after him;
49. ‘That Brahmanhood which Kuśika never attained, – his son, O
king, found out the means to gain it; (so) Sagara made a bound for
the ocean, which even the Ikṣvākus had not fixed before him.
50. ‘Janaka attained a power of instructing the twice-born in the rules
of Yoga which none other had ever reached; and the famed feats of