Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 231
northern region with Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva as mendicants in his
train.
31. The glory of the Avadāna of the birth of the lion of the Śākyas
has thus been described by me at length and yet very concisely; it
must be corrected by paṇḍits wherever anything is omitted, – my
childish speech is not to be laughed at, but to be listened to with
pleasure.
Whatever virtue may have been acquired from describing
the king of the Law, the deliverer from mundane
existence, who assumes all forms, – may it become a store
of merit for the production of right activity and inactivity
in others, and for the diffusion of delight among the six
orders of beings.
Thus ends the seventeenth sarga, called the Progress to Lumbinī,
in the great poem made by Aśvaghoṣa, the Buddha-carita.