Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 229
flames, and the rest, stood resting their feet on the serpent Śeṣa, and
followed leading the gods and gandharvas in their dance in the sky.
25. Making millions of ascetics, disciples, Arhats, sages, mendicants,
and fasters, – and delivering from their ills the blind, the
humpbacked, the lame, the insane, the maimed as well as the destitute,
– and having established many persons of the fourth caste in the true
activity and inaction and in the three yānas, with the four saṅgrahas
and the eight aṅgas, – going on from place to place, delivering, and
confirming the Bhikṣus, in the twelfth year he went to his own city.
26. Day by day confirming the Bhikṣus, and providing food for the
congregation, in an auspicious moment he made a journey to Lumbinī
with the Bhikṣus and the citizens, Brahman and Rudra being at their
head, with great triumph and noise of musical instruments. There he
saw the holy fig-tree and he stood by it remembering his birth, with a
smile; and rays of light streamed from his mouth and went forth
illumining the earth; and he uttered a discourse to the goddess of the
wood, giving her the serenity of faith.
27. Having come to the Lumbinī fig-tree he spoke to Paurvikā the
daughter of Rāhula, and Gopikā the daughter of Maitra, and his own
Saudhanī Kauśikā; and he uttered an affectionate discourse honouring
his mother by the tank Vasatya; then speaking with Ekasāṅgi the
daughter of Mahākautuka and Sautasomī in the wood Nigrodha, he
received into the community some members of his own family,
headed by Sundarānanda, and one hundred and seven citizens.