The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 90
iti sma tattadbahuyuktiyukta jagāda cāsta ca yayau vivasvān |
tato havirdhūmavivarṇavkṣa tapaḥpraśāta sa vana viveśa || 7.32
32. Thus he uttered his discourse full of various arguments, and the sun went down
into the west; then he entered the grove where penances had now ceased and whose
trees were gray with the smoke of the (evening) oblations;
abhyuddhtaprajvalitāgnihotra ktābhiṣekarṣijanāvakīrṇam |
jāpyasvanākūjitadevakoṣṭha dharmasya karmātamiva pravttam || 7.33
33. Where the sacred fires had been duly transferred when kindled to other spots, —
all crowded with the holy hermits who had performed their ablutions, and with the
shrines of the gods murmuring with the muttered prayers, — it seemed all alive like
the full service of religion in exercise.
kāścinniśāstatra niśākarābhaḥ parīkṣamāṇaśca tapāsyuvāsa |
sarva parikṣepya tapaśca matvā tasmāttapaḥkṣetratalājjagāma || 7.34
34. He spent several nights there, himself like the moon, examining their penances;
and he departed from that penance-field, feeling that he had comprehended the whole
nature of penance.
anvavrajannāśramiṇastatasta tadrūpamāhātmyagatairmanobhiḥ |
deśādanāryairabhibhūyamānānmahārṣayo dharmamivāpayātam || 7.35
35. The dwellers of the hermitage followed him with their minds fixed on the
greatness of soul visible in his person, as if they were great seers beholding Religion
herself, withdrawn from a land invaded by the base.
tato jaṭāvalkalacīrakhelāstapodhanāścaiva sa tāndadarśa |
tapāsi caiṣāmanubudhyamānastasthau śive śrīmati mārgavkṣe || 7.36
36. Then he looked on all those ascetics with their matted hair, bark garments, and
rag-strips waving, and he stood considering their penances under an auspicious and
noble tree by the way-side.
athopastyāśramavāsinasta manuṣyavarya parivārya tasthuḥ |
vddhaśca teṣā bahumānapūrva kalena sāmnā giramityuvāca || 7.37
37. Then the hermits having approached stood surrounding the best of men; and an old
man from among them thus addressed him respectfully in a gentle voice:
tvayyāgate pūrṇa ivāśramo ’bhūtsapadyate śūnya iva prayāte |
tasmādima nārhasi tāta hātu jijīviṣordehamiveṣṭamāyuḥ || 7.38
38. ‘At thy coming the hermitage seems to have become full, it becomes as it were
empty when thou art gone, — therefore, my son, thou wilt not surely desert it, as the
loved life the body of one who wishes to live.