Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 30
pavilion and yet reached not the ground, like a holy sage stepping
from a heavenly chariot.
33. Meanwhile the king for the sake of ensuring his son’s prosperity
and stirred in heart by the destiny which had been predicted for him,
delighted himself in perfect calm, ceased from all evil, practised all
self-restraint, and rewarded the good.
34. He turned to no sensual pleasures like one wanting in self-control;
he felt no violent delight in any state of birth; he subdued by firmness
the restless horses of the senses; and he surpassed his kindred and
citizens by his virtues.
35. He sought not learning to vex another; such knowledge as was
beneficent, that only he studied; he wished well to all mankind as
much as to his own subjects.
36. He worshipped also duly the brilliant (Agni) that tutelary god of
the Aṅgirasas, for his son’s long life; and he offered oblations in a
large fire, and gave gold and cows to the Brāhmans.
37. He bathed to purify his body and mind with the waters of holy
places and of holy feelings; and at the same time he drank the somajuice
as enjoined by the Veda, and the heartfelt self-produced
happiness of perfect calm.