Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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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
Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 201 muhūrta called the Victorious, in the night, – he took his stand on the throne. 118. The five worthy disciples stood in front, with joyful minds, paying their homage, and the son of Śuddhodana performed that act of meditation which is called the Arouser of all worlds; Brahman and the other gods came surrounded by their attendants, summoned each from his own world; and Maitrīya with the deities of the Tuṣita heaven came for the turning of the wheel of the Law. 119. So too when the multitude of the sons of the Jinas and the Suras gathered together from the ten directions of space, there came also the noble chief of the sons of the Jinas, named Dharmacakra, carrying the wheel of the Law; With head reverentially bowed, having placed it, a mass of gold and jewels, before the Buddha and having worshipped him, he thus besought him, ‘O thou lord of saints, turn the wheel of the Law as it has been done by (former) Sugatas.’
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