Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 182
71. Then the Buddha, mounted on a throne, up in the air to the height
of seven palm-trees, addressed all those Nirmitā Bodhisattvāḥ,
illumining their minds,
72. ‘Ho! ho! listen ye to the words of me who have now attained
perfect knowledge; everything is achieved by meritorious works,
therefore as long as existence lasts acquire merit.
73. ‘Since I ever acted as liberal, pure-hearted, patient, skilful, devoted
to meditation and wisdom, – by these meritorious works I became a
Bodhisattva.
74. ‘After accomplishing in due order the entire round of the
preliminaries of perfect wisdom, – I have now attained that highest
wisdom and I am become the All-wise Arhat and Jina.
75. ‘My aspiration is thus fulfilled; this birth of mine has borne its
fruit; the blessed and immortal knowledge which was attained by
former Buddhas, is now mine.
76. ‘As they through the good Law achieved the welfare of all beings,
so also have I; all my sins are abolished, I am the destroyer of all
pains.
77. ‘Possessing a soul now of perfect purity, I urge all living beings to
seek the abolition of worldly existence through the lamps of the Law.’
Having worshipped him as he thus addressed them, those sons of the
Jinas disappeared.