Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 227
last reached the wood Nigrodha, illuminating the district by his glory,
shaking the earth and putting an end to misery.
19. He again stirred up his followers in the doctrine of the Buddha,
and then went on with the crowds of inhabitants gathered round him,
instructing his shaven mendicant-followers, as they begged alms,
while the gods brought his precepts to their minds. He forbade the
mendicants to enter the city and went to Rājageha himself with his
own followers; and then the king who dwells apart from all doubt, the
Jina, who knows at once all the history of every Bhikṣu, instructed the
ascetic (Udāyin) in proclaiming wisdom to others.
20. In accordance with the Jina’s command that prince of ascetics,
Udāyin, went to the city of Kapila; there he, the lord of all possessors
of supernatural powers, instructed the king as he stood in the
assembly in the boon of the eight hundred powers; and coming down
from heaven he uttered to the king and his court a discourse on the
four sublime truths, and the king, with his mind enlightened, having
worshipped him, held intercourse with him, attended by his courtiers,
offering every form of homage.
21. The monarch, rejoiced at the sight of the Jina, praised his feet,
worshipping them with eight hundred presents; and the Sugata
departed, and made manifest in the sky in his one person a form
comprehending the universe; first as fire, then ambrosia, then the king
of beasts, an elephant, the king of horses, the king of peacocks, the