Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 66
41. There he was gazed at by his wives with restless eyes, whose faces
were kissed by their dangling earrings, and whose bosoms were
shaken with their thick-coming sighs, – as by so many young fawns.
42. Bright like a golden mountain, and bewitching the hearts of the
noble women, he enraptured their ears, limbs, eyes, and souls by his
speech, touch, form, and qualities.
43. When the day was gone, then, shining with his form like the sun,
he ascended the palace, as the rising sun ascends Mount Meru,
desiring to dispel the darkness by his own splendour.
44. Having ascended, he repaired to a special golden seat decorated
with embellishments of diamond, with tall lighted candlesticks ablaze
with gold, and its interior filled with the incense of black aloe-wood.
45. Then the noblest of women waited during the night on the noblest
of men who was like Indra himself, with a concert of musical
instruments, as the crowds of heavenly nymphs wait on the son of the
Lord of wealth upon the summit of Himavat, white like the moon.
46. But even by those beautiful instruments like heavenly music he
was not moved to pleasure or delight; since his desire to go forth
from his home to seek the bliss of the highest end was never lulled.
47. Then by the power of the heavenly beings most excellent in selfmortification,
the Akaniṣṭhas, who knew the purpose of his heart,