Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 200
112. Then the five, pure in heart, begged leave to undertake his vow
of a religious life; and the Buddha, touching their heads, received
them into the mendicant order.
113. Then at the mendicants’ respectful request the chief of saints
bathed in the tank, and after eating ambrosia he reflected on the field
of the Law.
114. Remembering that the Deer Park and the field of the Jina were
there, he went joyfully with them and pointed out the sacred seats.
115. Having worshipped three seats, he desired to visit the fourth, and
when the worthy disciples asked about it, the teacher thus addressed
them:
116. ‘These are the four seats of the Buddhas of the (present) Bhadra
Age, – three Buddhas have passed therein, and I here am the fourth
possessor of the ten powers.’
117. Having thus addressed them the glorious one bowed to that
throne of the Law, decked with tapestries of cloth and silk, and
having its stone inlaid with jewels, like a golden mountain, guarded
by the kings of kings,
In the former fortnight of Āṣāḍa, on the day consecrated to the
Regent of Jupiter, on the lunar day sacred to Viṣnu, and on an
auspicious conjunction, under the asterism Anurādhā, and in the