And the angels stood on the edge of the rocks that encircle the world; and stretching forwards in amazement, they looked on, saying, “Lost! lost is Siddhattha the Prince, the glorious and beautiful! What can he do to save himself!” Then the Great Being exclaimed, “I have reached the throne on which sit the Buddhas-to-be when they are perfect in all goodness, on that day when they shall reach Enlightenment.” And he said to Māra, standing there before him, “Māra, who is witness that thou hast given alms?” And Māra stretched forth his hand to the hosts of his followers, and said, “So many are my witnesses.” And that moment there arose a shout as the sound of an earthquake from the hosts of the Evil One, saying, “I am his witness! I am his witness!” Then the Tempter addressed the Great Being, and said, “Siddhattha! who is witness that thou hast given alms?” And the Great Being answered, “Thou hast living witnesses that thou hast given alms: and I have in this place no living witness at all. But not counting the alms I have given in other births, let this great and solid earth, unconscious though it be, be witness of the seven hundredfold great alms I gave when I was born as Wessantara!” And withdrawing his right hand from beneath his robe, he stretched it forth towards the earth, and said, “Are you, or are you not witness of the seven hundredfold great gift I gave in my birth as Wessantara?” And the great Earth uttered a voice, saying, “I am witness to thee of that!” overwhelming as it were the hosts of the Evil One as with the shout of hundreds of thousands of foes. Then the mighty elephant “Girded with mountains,” as he realized what the generosity of Wessantara had been, fell down on his knees before the Great Being. And the army of Māra fled this way and that way, so that not even two were left together: throwing off their clothes and their turbans, they fled, each one straight on before him. But the heavenly hosts, when they saw that the army of Māra had fled, cried out, “The Tempter is overcome! Siddhattha the Prince has prevailed! Come, let us honour the Victor!” And the Nāgas, and the Winged Creatures, and the Angels, and the Archangels, each urging his comrades on, went up to the Great Being at the Bo-tree’s foot, and as they came, 274. At the Bo-tree’s foot the Nāga bands Shouted, for joy that the Sage had won; “The Blessed Buddha--he hath prevailed! And the Tempter is overthrown!” 275. At the Bo-tree’s foot the Winged Ones Shouted, for joy that the Sage had won; “The Blessed Buddha--he hath prevailed! And the Tempter is overthrown!” 276. At the Bo-tree’s foot the Angel hosts Shouted, for joy that the Sage had won; “The Blessed Buddha--he hath prevailed! And the Tempter is overthrown!”