[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) › 35.119 # 佛祖統紀 35.119 佛祖統紀 35.119 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [35.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35.119) 始元元年郴人蘇耽感神仙。授以道術。一日忽掃洒庭除曰。仙侶至矣。俄紫氣氤氳。白鶴數十來集化為人。天服粲麗。耽入白母曰。耽當為神仙不得終養。因留樻曰。有所乏可叩之。又云。明年郡有疾疫。可取庭前井水橘葉以救人。少資甘旨。言畢升天。明年果大疫。百姓競詣母。母依法救之皆愈。常有乏叩樻。其物立致。後三年母疑開鑰視之。雙鶴飛去。叩之無復應。後有一鶴來止郡城樓。少年彈之。乃以爪攫樓板成字云。風浙浙兮雨淒淒。城郭是兮人民非。三百甲子令來歸。我是蘇耽彈我何為。 > In the first year of Shiyuan, Su Dan, a native of Chen, moved the divine immortals, and they transmitted Daoist arts to him. One day, he suddenly swept and sprinkled the courtyard steps, saying, 'My immortal companions have arrived!' Presently, purple qi billowed, and several tens of white cranes arrived, congregated, and transformed into people whose celestial robes were dazzling and beautiful. Dan entered and informed his mother, saying, 'Dan must become a divine immortal and cannot support you to the end of your life.' He thereupon left a chest, saying, 'Whenever you lack anything, you may knock on it.' He also said, 'Next year there will be an epidemic in the commandery; you may take water from the well in front of the courtyard and orange leaves to rescue people, which will slightly provide you with delicious nourishment.' Having spoken, he ascended to heaven. The next year, there was indeed a great epidemic. The common people competed to go to the mother, and she rescued them according to the method, and all were healed. Whenever she was in want, she knocked on the chest, and the items arrived immediately. Three years later, the mother grew suspicious, unlocked it, and looked inside; a pair of cranes flew away, and knocking on it yielded no further response. Later, a crane came and perched upon the tower of the commandery wall. A youth shot at it with a pellet bow, whereupon it scratched characters into the wooden planks of the tower with its claws, which read: 'The wind blows whistling, the rain falls bleakly; / The city walls remain, but the people are changed. / After three hundred sexagenary cycles, I am made to return; / I am Su Dan—why shoot at me with a pellet?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 35.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35.118) - [Next: 35.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35.120) - [Up: 35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.35.119) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.35.119) · Pramāṇa