佛祖統紀 30.15

30.15

賢劫初成時。光音天。空中布金色雲。遍覆梵天。注大洪雨猶如車軸。積風輪上結為水輪。增長至天住界。雨斷水退有大風起。吹水生沫擲置空中。作梵天宮殿七寶間成。水復退下如前風起。吹擲水沫成魔羅波旬宮殿。次造他化自在天。展轉至夜摩天宮殿。水復退下。大風吹沫造須彌山四寶所成。復吹水沫造三十三天七寶宮殿。復於山腹造四天王宮。及日月宮天七寶宮殿。及造空居夜叉頗梨宮殿。又於須彌四面作修羅城。七寶莊嚴。又吹水沫作七金山四大洲八萬小洲。周匝安置小輪圍山。金剛所成。如是大風吹掘大地漸漸深入。置大水聚成七香水海及大鹹水海。又於地下造閻摩羅宮殿地獄住處。如是三千世界一時同成。此外更造大輪圍山。包裹此大千界。其中六欲須彌日月四洲。乃至小鐵圍山。各有萬億。此約經歷二十增減次第而成（起世經）。

When the Fortunate Kalpa was first forming, in the Ābhāsvara Heaven, golden clouds spread in the sky, completely covering the Brahmā Heaven. Torrents of great rain poured down like wagon axles, accumulating upon the wind-wheel and condensing into a water-wheel, which expanded upward until reaching the abodes of the gods. When the rain ceased and the waters receded, a great wind arose, blowing the water to produce foam, tossing it into the sky to create the palaces of the Brahmā Heaven, interspersed with the seven precious treasures. The water receded further; as before, a wind arose, blowing and tossing the foam of the water to create the palace of Māra Pāpīyas. Next it created the Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, and so on progressively down to the palaces of the Yāma Heaven. The water receded yet further. A great wind blew the foam to create Mount Sumeru, made of the four precious gems. Again it blew the water foam to create the palaces of the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven made of the seven precious treasures. Further, on the slopes of the mountain, it created the palaces of the Four Heavenly Kings, the seven-jeweled palaces of the heavens of the sun and moon palaces, and created the crystal palaces of the sky-dwelling yakṣas. Furthermore, on the four sides of Sumeru it made the asura citadels, adorned with the seven treasures. Again it blew the water foam to make the seven golden mountains, the four great continents, and eighty thousand small continents, arraying all around them the small Cakravaḍa mountains, formed of diamond. In this way the great wind blew and dug into the great earth, gradually going deeper, depositing a great congregation of waters to form the seven scented-water seas and the great salt-water ocean. Furthermore, beneath the earth it created the palace of Yamarāja and the dwellings of the hells. In this way the trichiliocosm was completed simultaneously in a single moment. Beyond this it further created the Great Cakravaḍa mountains, encircling this great-thousand world. Within it, the six desires [heavens], Sumeru, the sun and moon, the four continents, down to the small Iron Enclosure mountains, each numbered ten thousand million. This is based on its being formed sequentially across twenty kalpas of increase and decrease (the Qishi jing).