Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 26
7. Heaven rained in his kingdom in due time and place, with the
sound of gentle winds and clouds, and adorned with wreaths of
lightning, and without any drawback of showers of stones or
thunderbolts.
8. A fruitful crop sprang up according to season, even without the
labour of ploughing; and the old plants grew more vigorous in juice
and substance.
9. Even at that crisis which threatens danger to the body like the
collision of battle, pregnant women brought forth in good health, in
safety, and without sickness.
10. And whereas men do not willingly ask from others, even where a
surety’s property is available, – at that time even one possessed of
slender means turned not his face away when solicited.
11. There was no ruin nor murder, – nay, there was not even one
ungenerous to his kinsmen, no breaker of obligations, none untruthful
nor injurious, – as in the days of Yayāti the son of Nahuṣa.
12. Those who sought religious merit performed sacred works and
made gardens, temples, and hermitages, wells, cisterns, lakes, and
groves, having beheld heaven as it were visible before their eyes.
13. The people, delivered from famine, fear, and sickness, dwelt
happily as in heaven; and in mutual contentment husband transgressed
not against wife, nor wife against husband.