佛祖統紀 53.23

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宋太宗。吳越王入朝。僧統贊寧奉釋迦舍利塔。入見滋福殿○高宗。親洒宸翰賜佛頂光明之塔○孝宗遣內侍李裕文。至育王山迎佛舍利塔。詣行在所奉安觀堂。焚香瞻禮。見塔上有月輪相及水晶珠。皇太子請至東宮瞻禮。見相輪纍纍然如水晶珠。上書妙勝之殿。以安塔所○皇子魏王來鎮四明。往寺瞻禮寶塔。見豪光青赤交眩。因造金塔奉安舍利塔。於中作贊四章。刻於塔之四旁○寺東一里有聖井靈鰻。欲出則有二紅蟹若前驅者。錢武肅王迎塔至錢唐。夢一菩薩首戴結縵華冠。兩掖挾蟹云。是育王聖井靈鰻。來護塔耳（已上並見寧僧統所作舍利塔傳靈鰻傳）。

Under Emperor Taizong of the Song, the King of Wuyue came to court; Monastic Regulator Zanning presented the Śākyamuni relic pagoda, bringing it in for an audience at the Zifu Hall. Emperor Gaozong personally wielded his imperial brush to bestow the title "Pagoda of the Radiance of the Buddha's Uṣṇīṣa." Emperor Xiaozong sent the palace attendant Li Yuwen to Mount King Aśoka to welcome the Buddha relic pagoda, escorting it to the provisional capital to be enshrined in the Contemplation Hall, where he burned incense, gazed upon it, and paid homage; he saw the sign of a moon-disc and crystal beads upon the pagoda. The Crown Prince requested that it be brought to the Eastern Palace to gaze upon and pay homage; he saw that the spire-rings were clustered like crystal beads. The Emperor inscribed "Hall of Wondrous Triumph" to enshrine the pagoda. The imperial son, the Prince of Wei, came to garrison Siming; he went to the monastery to gaze upon and pay homage to the precious pagoda, seeing radiant beams of blue and red dazzlingly intermingled. He therefore fashioned a gold pagoda to house the relic pagoda, composing four stanzas of eulogy inscribed on its four sides. One li east of the monastery there is a sacred eel in a holy well; whenever it is about to come out, two red crabs act as outriders. When King Wusu Qian welcomed the pagoda to Qiantang, he dreamt of a bodhisattva wearing a crowned headdress of entwined flower garlands, clutching a crab under each arm, who said: "I am the sacred eel of the holy well of King Aśoka, come to protect the pagoda." (The above accounts all appear in the Biography of the Relic Pagoda and the Biography of the Sacred Eel written by Monastic Regulator Ning).