中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.43

1.43

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.