Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish: Buddha and the gospel of buddhism (London, 1916)

Buddha & the Gospel of Buddhism
But O framer of houses, thou art found—
Never again shalt thou fashion a house for me!
Broken are all thy beams.
The king-post shattered I
My mind has passed into the stillness of Nibbana
The ending of desire has been attained at last!
Innumerable wonders were manifest at this supreme hour.
The earth quaked six times, and the whole universe was
illuminated by the supernatural splendour of the sixfold
rays that proceeded from the body of the seated Buddha.
Resentment faded from the hearts of all men, all lack was
supplied, the sick were healed, the chains of hell were
loosed, and every creature of whatsoever sort found peace
and rest.
The Forty-nine Days
Gautama, who was now Buddha, the Enlightened, remained
seated and motionless for seven days, realizing the bliss of
Nibbana; and thereafter rising, he remained standing for
seven days more, steadfastly regarding the spot where
had been won the fruit of countless deeds of heroic virtue
performed in past births: then for seven days more he
paced to and fro along a cloistered path from West to
East, extending from the throne beneath the Wisdom Tree
to the place of the Steadfast Gazing; and again for
seven days he remained seated in a god-wrought pavilion
near to the same place, and there reviewed in detail, book
by book, all that is taught in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, as
well as the whole doctrine of causality; then for seven
days more he sat beneath the Nigrodha tree of Sujata’s
offering, meditating on the doctrine and the sweetness of
Nibbana—and according to some books it was at this
time the temptation by the daughters of Mara took place;
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