[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 34.57 # 佛祖統紀 34.57 佛祖統紀 34.57 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [34.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34.57) 三十三年。佛滅後百年。中天竺華氏城（王宮多華）阿育王（此云無憂）遣使白毱多欲來問訊。毱多往至王所。摩頂說偈。指示如來往昔行住之處悉令起塔。復於恒河龍宮。取闍王所藏釋迦舍利。作八萬四千寶塔。勅諸鬼神。於閻浮提城邑滿一億家為立一塔云云。初佛在王舍城乞食。有童子遙見世尊。心念我當施以麥\[麩-夫+少\]。即手捧細沙著世尊鉢。願以功德令得一天下繖蓋王（取蓋覆義）。即於此生得供養佛。世尊微笑告阿難曰。我滅百年。此童子統領一方為轉輪王。姓孔雀。名阿育。正法治化。廣布我舍利。造八萬四千法王之塔。 > In the thirty-third year, one hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, King Aśoka (translated as 'Free of Sorrow') of Pāṭaliputra in Central India (the royal palace had many flowers) sent an envoy to inform Upagupta that he wished to pay his respects. Upagupta went to the king's dwelling, rubbed his head, spoke a verse, and pointed out the places where the Tathāgata had walked and stayed in the past, causing stūpas to be erected at all of them. Furthermore, from the dragon palace in the Ganges, he retrieved the relics of Śākyamuni that had been enshrined by King Ajātaśatru, and fashioned eighty-four thousand jewel stūpas. He commanded the spirits and deities to erect one stūpa in every city and settlement across Jambudvīpa with a population of one hundred million households, and so forth. Formerly, when the Buddha was begging for food in Rājagṛha, a young boy saw the World-Honoured One from afar and thought: 'I should make an offering of roasted flour.' He thereupon took fine sand in both hands and put it into the World-Honoured One's bowl, making the vow: 'By this merit, may I become a parasol king ruling over the world' (referring to the sense of covering over). He thus made an offering to the Buddha in that very life. The World-Honoured One smiled and told Ānanda: 'One hundred years after my nirvāṇa, this boy will govern one quarter as a wheel-turning king, of the Maurya clan, named Aśoka. Governing and transforming by the correct Dharma, he will widely distribute my relics and build eighty-four thousand stūpas for the King of the Dharma.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 34.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34.56) - [Next: 34.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34.58) - [Up: 34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.34.57) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.34.57) · Pramāṇa