Note 2 — Chapter XXXI · GAYA. SAKYAMUNI’S ATTAINING TO THE BUDDHASHIP; AND OTHER LEGENDS.
James Legge translation
(2) This is told so as to make us think that he was in danger of being drowned; but this does not appear in the only other account of the incident I have met with,—in “The Life of the Buddha,” p. 31. And he was not yet Buddha, though he is here called so; unless indeed the narrative is confused, and the incidents do not follow in the order of time.