Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 17
the grandson of Śūra (Kriṣṇa) Śūra and his peers were powerless to
accomplish.
51. ‘Therefore it is not age nor years which are the criterion; different
persons win pre-eminence in the world at different places; those
mighty exploits worthy of kings and sages, when left undone by the
ancestors, have been done by the sons.’
52. The king, being thus consoled and congratulated by those welltrusted
Brāhmans, dismissed from his mind all unwelcome suspicion
and rose to a still higher degree of joy;
53. And well-pleased he gave to those most excellent of the twice-born
rich treasures with all due honour, – ‘May he become the ruler of the
earth according to your words, and may he retire to the woods when
he attains old age.’
54. Then having learned by signs and through the power of his
penances this birth of him who was to destroy all birth, the great seer
Asita in his thirst for the excellent Law came to the palace of the
Śākya king.
55. Him shining with the glory of sacred knowledge and ascetic
observances, the king’s own priest, – himself a special student among
the students of sacred knowledge, – introduced into the royal palace
with all due reverence and respect.