Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 224
daughters of Nandika, Sujātā and others, who dwelt in the village, to
become the first female ascetics; and in the city of Rājageha, having
enlightened in right action and in activity the king Bimbisāra, the
monarch, who is to be considered as the elderborn in perfect
knowledge, he made him who was the devoted follower of the
10. In another village named Nāradya there was a Brāhman
Dharmapālin and a Brāhman woman named Śālyā; their seventh son
named Upatiṣya, who had studied the entire Veda, became a Buddhist
mendicant; so too there was a great pandit, a Brāhman named
Dhānyāyana, who dwelt in the village Kolata, and his son; – him and
the son of Śālī named Maudgalya the great saint received as the best
of Bhikṣus, pre-eminent disciples.
11. Next he ordained as a mendicant the keen-witted maternal uncle
of Śāliputra, Dīrghānakha by name; then travelling in the realm of
Magadha, the glorious one, being honoured by the inhabitants with
alms and other signs of devotion, and delivering them from evil,
dwelt in the convent given by the seer Jeta, attracting to himself many
of the monks; and after ordaining as a mendicant a native of Mithilā,
named Ānanda, with his companions, he dwelt there a year.
12. The Brahman named Kāśyapa, a very Kuvera for wealth, and a
master in all the sciences connected with the Veda, an inhabitant of
Rājageha, being pure-minded and wearing only one garment, left all
his kindred and came seeking wisdom in asceticism; – when this noble