[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899) › 1.43 # 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.43 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.43 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.43) 次小巷北一院，名學人十二因緣之院。南東二門，並向巷開。堂樹如前。中有銅鐘，外似鉾形，內有七楞，鼻有金師子，下有三十七角。時至自鳴，不待人扣。娑竭龍王第三子所造。由悉鼻有血因緣竟，比丘教化令造。使龍工巧匠，是毘婆尸佛時人。鐘既成已，鼻血便滅，聲至三百里。 > Next, to the north of the small lane, is a courtyard called the Courtyard of the Śaikṣa Twelvefold Dependent Origination. It has south and east gates, both opening toward the lanes. Its halls and trees are as before. Inside is a bronze bell, resembling a lance on the outside and having seven facets inside; the loop has a golden lion, and below there are thirty-seven corners. When the time arrives, it rings spontaneously without waiting for a person to strike it. It was made by the third son of the Nāgarāja Sāgara. Because he had the karmic condition of bleeding from his nose, a bhikṣu instructed and transformed him, causing him to make it. He employed a master craftsman of the nāgas who was a person from the time of Vipaśyin Buddha. Once the bell was completed, the nosebleed ceased, and its sound reached three hundred li. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.42) - [Next: 1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.44) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899~en-mt.1.43) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.43) · Pramāṇa