Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 19
62. ‘But hear now the motive for my coming and rejoice thereat; a
heavenly voice has been heard by me in the heavenly path, that thy
son has been born for the sake of supreme knowledge.
63. ‘Having heard that voice and applied my mind thereto, and having
known its truth by signs, I am now come hither, with a longing to see
the banner of the Śākya race, as if it were Indra’s banner being set
up.’
64. Having heard this address of his, the king, with his steps
bewildered with joy, took the prince, who lay on his nurse’s side, and
showed him to the holy ascetic.
65. Thus the great seer beheld the king’s son with wonder, – his foot
marked with a wheel, his fingers and toes webbed, with a circle of
hair between his eyebrows, and signs of vigour like an elephant.
66. Having beheld him seated on his nurse’s side, like the son of Agni
(Skanda) seated on Devī’s side, he stood with the tears hanging on the
ends of his eyelashes, and sighing he looked up towards heaven.
67. But seeing Asita with his eyes thus filled with tears, the king was
agitated through his love for his son, and with his hands clasped and
his body bowed he thus asked him in a broken voice choked with
weeping,
68. ‘One whose beauty has little to distinguish it from that of a divine
sage, and whose brilliant birth has been so wonderful, and for whom