Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 84
Book VII [Entry into the Penance Grove]
1. Then having left the weeping tear-faced Chaṁda, – indifferent to
all things in his longing for the forest, he by whom all objects are
accomplished, overpowering the place by his beauty, entered that
hermitage as if it were fully blessed.
2. He the prince with a gait like the lion’s, having entered that arena
of deer, himself like a deer, – by the beauty of his person, even
though bereft of his magnificence, attracted the eyes of all the
dwellers in the hermitage.
3. The drivers of wheeled carriages also, with their wives, stood still
in curiosity, holding the yokes in their hands, – they gazed on him
who was like Indra, and moved not, standing like their beasts of
burden with their heads half bent down.
4. And the Brāhmans who had gone outside for the sake of fuel,
having come with their hands full of fuel, flowers, and kusa grass, –
pre-eminent as they were in penances, and proficients in wisdom,
went to see him, and went not to their cells.
5. Delighted the peacocks uttered their cries, as if they had seen a
dark-blue cloud rising up; and leaving the young grass and coming
forward, the deer with restless eyes and the ascetics who grazed like
deer stood still.