法苑珠林 9.16

9.16

Furthermore, when the Bodhisattva first emerged from his mother’s womb, Śakra, Lord of the Devas, wrapped his own hands in fine, exquisite celestial kauśeya cloth and was the first to receive and hold up the Bodhisattva's body. This was an unprecedented phenomenon of the Bodhisattva. It symbolizes that after achieving buddhahood, when he initially became the lord of the sahā world, the Great Brahmā King was the first to exhort and request the Tathāgata to teach the Dharma.