Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 198
98. When he arrived at the city Sārathi, the citizens volunteered to be
charioteers in his service; thence he came to the Ganges, and he bade
the ferryman cross.
99. ‘Good man, convey me across the Ganges, may the seven blessings
be thine.’ ‘I carry no one across unless he pays the fee.’
100. ‘I have nothing, what shall I give’ So saying he went through the
sky like the king of birds; and from that time Bimbisāra abolished the
ferry-fee for all ascetics.
101. Then having entered Vārāṇasī, the Jina, illumining the city with
his light, filled the minds of all the inhabitants of Kāśī with excessive
interest.
102. In the Saṅkhamedhīya garden, the king of righteousness,
absorbed in meditation, passed the night, gladdening like the moon all
those who were astonished at his appearance.
103. The next day at the end of the second watch, having gone his
begging round collecting alms, he, the unequalled one, like Hari,
proceeded to the Deer Park.
104. The five disciples united in a worthy society, when they beheld
him, said to one another, ‘This is Gautama who has come hither, the
ascetic who has abandoned his self-control.